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Depths 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.…
- 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 Depths Quotes
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- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. — Georges Bernanos
- In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit,… — John le Carre
- Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are.… — Benjamin Carson
- What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths… — Sogyal Rinpoche
- Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself. — Billy Mills
- At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him. — D. Elton Trueblood
- There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea;… — Sadhu Sundar Singh