--- title: "11 Nature of Beauty Quotes By Victor Hugo" description: "11 Nature of Beauty quotes by Victor Hugo. Plus more from Victor Hugo and more Nature of Beauty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/victor-hugo-32_beautiful_sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a_655415.jpg" --- > [Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a-contrast-and-we-need-a/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/victor-hugo-32_beautiful_sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a_655415.jpg) > [“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-soul-that-loves-and-suffers-is-in-the-sublime-state/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/victor-hugo-32_feeling_the-soul-that-loves-and-suffers-is-in-th_1334529.jpg) > [When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-grace-is-joined-with-wrinkles-it-is-adorable-there-is-an/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/605/victor-hugo-32_adorable_when-grace-is-joined-with-wrinkles-it-is_2636999.jpg) > [As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/as-a-means-of-contrast-with-the-sublime-the-grotesque-is-in-our-view-2/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/victor-hugo-32_grotesque_as-a-means-of-contrast-with-the-sublime_2642779.jpg) > [As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/as-a-means-of-contrast-with-the-sublime-the-grotesque-is-in-our-view/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43c/victor-hugo-32_contrast_as-a-means-of-contrast-with-the-sublime_612753.jpg) > [“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy. Upon those chairs in disarray, among those flowers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead-festival-it-has-been-happy-2/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/victor-hugo-32_joy_there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead_597080.jpg) > [Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/jesus-wept-voltaire-smiled-from-that-divine-tear-and-from-that-human/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/victor-hugo-32_civilization_jesus-wept-voltaire-smiled-from-that-div_2421922.jpg) > [Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/without-vanity-without-coquetry-without-curiosity-in-a-word-without/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/victor-hugo-32_curiosity_without-vanity-without-coquetry-without_1112634.jpg) > [When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-grace-combines-with-wrinkles-it-is-admirable-there-is-an/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/victor-hugo-32_admirable_when-grace-combines-with-wrinkles-it-is_2832835.jpg) > [“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/but-what-was-tragic-about-the-girl-was-that-she-had-not-been-born/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/victor-hugo-32_aging_but-what-was-tragic-about-the-girl-was-t_1869533.jpg) > [“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/we-will-simply-say-here-that-as-a-means-of-contrast-with-the-sublime/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fe/victor-hugo-32_art_we-will-simply-say-here-that-as-a-means_892653.jpg) ## Other authors on Nature of Beauty - [Lailah Gifty Akita 97 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-tullian-tchividjian-92416.jpg) Tullian Tchividjian 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/tullian-tchividjian/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dietrich-bonhoeffer-29418.jpg) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ann-voskamp-13597.jpg) Ann Voskamp 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/ann-voskamp/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-max-lucado-65870.jpg) Max Lucado 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/max-lucado/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edmund-burke-31567.jpg) Edmund Burke 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/edmund-burke/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-calvin-51107.jpg) John Calvin 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/john-calvin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/charles-spurgeon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-dryden-51272.jpg) John Dryden 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/john-dryden/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cathleen-falsani-21678.jpg) Cathleen Falsani 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/cathleen-falsani/) ## More by Victor Hugo > [Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/houses-are-like-the-human-beings-that-inhabit-them/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead-festival-it-has-been-happy/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-caught-her-she-fell-he-caught-her-in-his-arms-he-held-her-tightly/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/first-i-loved-women-then-animals-and-now-i-love-stones-they-re-just/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/nature-is-pitiless-she-never-withdraws-her-flowers-her-music-her/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/have-courage-for-the-great-sorrows-of-life-and-patience-for-the-small/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-peasants-of-the-asturias-believe-that-in-every-litter-of-wolves/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/great-blunders-are-often-made-like-large-ropes-of-a-multitude-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/for-love-is-like-a-tree-it-grows-of-itself-it-send-its-roots-deep/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/blacheville-smiles-with-the-self-satisfied-smugness-of-a-man-whose/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/loving-in-ignorance-she-loved-with-all-the-more-passion-she-did-not/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/laughter-is-the-sun-that-drives-winter-from-the-human-face/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/our-joys-have-shadows-the-perfect-smile-belongs-to-god-alone/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-those-we-love-are-in-question-our-prudence-invents-every-sort-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Love is a fault; so be it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-is-a-fault-so-be-it/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/victor-hugo/#itemlist", "name": "11 Nature of Beauty Quotes By Victor Hugo", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Victor Hugo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a-contrast-and-we-need-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/victor-hugo-32_beautiful_sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a_655415.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/victor-hugo-32_beautiful_sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a_655415.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/victor-hugo-32_beautiful_sublime-upon-sublime-scarcely-presents-a_655415.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the…” — Victor Hugo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Victor Hugo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-soul-that-loves-and-suffers-is-in-the-sublime-state/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/victor-hugo-32_feeling_the-soul-that-loves-and-suffers-is-in-th_1334529.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/victor-hugo-32_feeling_the-soul-that-loves-and-suffers-is-in-th_1334529.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/victor-hugo-32_feeling_the-soul-that-loves-and-suffers-is-in-th_1334529.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.” — Victor Hugo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. 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A trace of beauty still lingered in the sixteen-year-old face, like pale sunlight fading beneath the massed clouds of a winter's dawn.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Victor Hugo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/but-what-was-tragic-about-the-girl-was-that-she-had-not-been-born/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/victor-hugo-32_aging_but-what-was-tragic-about-the-girl-was-t_1869533.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/victor-hugo-32_aging_but-what-was-tragic-about-the-girl-was-t_1869533.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/victor-hugo-32_aging_but-what-was-tragic-about-the-girl-was-t_1869533.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. 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