Light Quotes by Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light.

— Victor Hugo

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

— Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire.

— Victor Hugo

Labor is life; thought is light.

— Victor Hugo

I see black light (his last words)

— Victor Hugo

“Light renders healthy.”

— Victor Hugo

“I see a dark light.”

— Victor Hugo

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

— Victor Hugo

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

— Victor Hugo

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

— Victor Hugo

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

— Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

— Victor Hugo

“Let's not bring flame where light is enough.”

— Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

— Victor Hugo

“We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.”

— Victor Hugo

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the…

— Victor Hugo

“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?”

— Victor Hugo

“A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.”

— Victor Hugo

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end…

— Victor Hugo

“The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at…

— Victor Hugo

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,…

— Victor Hugo

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of…

— Victor Hugo

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

— 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

O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself…

— Victor Hugo

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

— Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed…

— Victor Hugo

The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its…

— Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night.…

— Victor Hugo

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.…

— Victor Hugo

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . .…

— Victor Hugo

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and…

— Victor Hugo

I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is…

— Victor Hugo

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For…

— Victor Hugo

“The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number…

— Victor Hugo

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He…

— Victor Hugo

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they…

— Victor Hugo

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them…

— Victor Hugo

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

— Victor Hugo