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Depth Quotes by Victor Hugo
- I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
- Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
- There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
- Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
- To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
- ...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is…
- Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!…
- Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that…
- In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities…
- The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that…
- He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
- Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
More Depth Quotes
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- No, I think the pitching today has more depth. — Ernie Banks
- During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe… — Ernie Banks
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams