Soul Quotes by Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

— Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

— Victor Hugo

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

— Victor Hugo

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

— Victor Hugo

“Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.”

— Victor Hugo

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

— Victor Hugo

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

— Victor Hugo

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

— Victor Hugo

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere…

— Victor Hugo

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

— Victor Hugo

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

— Victor Hugo

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

— Victor Hugo

My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.

— Victor Hugo

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

— Victor Hugo

“It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.”

— 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

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad…

— Victor Hugo

“There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and…

— 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

Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny…

— 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

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,…

— Victor Hugo

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a…

— Victor Hugo

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left…

— 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

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom…

— 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

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

— Victor Hugo

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man… Jean Valjean, my brother:…

— Victor Hugo

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must…

— Victor Hugo

Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,…

— Victor Hugo

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From…

— Victor Hugo

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He…

— Victor Hugo

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again…

— Victor Hugo

To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the…

— Victor Hugo

“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”

— Victor Hugo

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

— Victor Hugo

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

— Victor Hugo

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

— Victor Hugo