Heaven Quotes by Victor Hugo

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is…

— Victor Hugo

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

— Victor Hugo

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in...

— Victor Hugo

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

— Victor Hugo

“You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.”

— Victor Hugo

“The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

— Victor Hugo

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

— Victor Hugo

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;…

— Victor Hugo

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of…

— Victor Hugo

“At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth…

— Victor Hugo

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for…

— Victor Hugo

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think…

— Victor Hugo

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever…

— Victor Hugo

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening…

— Victor Hugo

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is…

— Victor Hugo

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest…

— Victor Hugo

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted,…

— Victor Hugo

“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,…

— Victor Hugo

“He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would…

— Victor Hugo

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the…

— Victor Hugo

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which…

— Victor Hugo

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,…

— Victor Hugo

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be…

— Victor Hugo

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

— Victor Hugo

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

— Victor Hugo

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

— Victor Hugo

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of…

— Victor Hugo

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the…

— Victor Hugo

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all…

— Victor Hugo