World Quotes by Victor Hugo

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

— Victor Hugo

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

— Victor Hugo

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

— Victor Hugo

“Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.”

— Victor Hugo

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

— Victor Hugo

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes…

— Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

— Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

— Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends…

— Victor Hugo

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It…

— 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

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys.…

— 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

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

— Victor Hugo

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste,…

— Victor Hugo

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you…

— Victor Hugo

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

— Victor Hugo

I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue…

— Victor Hugo

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

— Victor Hugo

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

— Victor Hugo

...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,…

— Victor Hugo

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches…

— Victor Hugo

It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments…

— Victor Hugo

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said…

— Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear…

— 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

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

— Victor Hugo

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by…

— Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it…

— Victor Hugo

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the…

— Victor Hugo