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Spirituality Quotes by Victor Hugo

79 Spirituality quotes by Victor Hugo

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The soul is described as a night sky where stars appear from inner darkness. Quotes speak of a spark that can ignite goodness and of animals mirroring our virtues and vices. Silence is portrayed as a place where the deepest truths of the heart speak without words.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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

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

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

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.”

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

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

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself…

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

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

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

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

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“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than…

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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which…

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

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

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

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

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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

“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.”

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…

“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

Love is a fault; so be it.