Spirituality 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

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

— 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

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

— Victor Hugo

“On the one side blind force, on the other a soul.”

— Victor Hugo

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.”

— Victor Hugo

“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

— Victor Hugo

“The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.”

— 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

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

— Victor Hugo

“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense…

— 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

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

— Victor Hugo

“We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the…

— 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

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

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

— Victor Hugo

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our…

— Victor Hugo

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is…

— Victor Hugo

“Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can…

— Victor Hugo

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

“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul…

— Victor Hugo

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of…

— Victor Hugo

“We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, live by faith,—we have never been able to think…

— Victor Hugo

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour…

— Victor Hugo

“The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and proven, is a woman. A hand…

— Victor Hugo

“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,…

— Victor Hugo

“As for us, we who do not believe what these women believe, but live like them by faith, never could look without…

— Victor Hugo

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved…

— Victor Hugo

“It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was…

— Victor Hugo

“Darkness makes the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day feels his heart chilled. When the eye…

— Victor Hugo