Sea Quotes by Victor Hugo

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

— Victor Hugo

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

— Victor Hugo

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

— Victor Hugo

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

— Victor Hugo

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea,…

— Victor Hugo

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is…

— 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

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a…

— Victor Hugo

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and…

— Victor Hugo

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

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible…

— Victor Hugo

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall…

— Victor Hugo

“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures…

— Victor Hugo