Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — 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
“In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old,… — 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… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
