When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The pun is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We are never done, then, with conscience. Make up your mind what to do with it, Brutus; make up your mind what… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“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.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
