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Sky Quotes by Victor Hugo
- It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious…
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
- All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,…
- O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being…
- Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had…
- Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners…
- In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot…
- There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of…
- Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is…
- Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal…
- Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they…
- The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,…
More Sky Quotes
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- Music fathoms the sky. — Charles Baudelaire
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell
- Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black
- This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee
- Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. — Arna Bontemps
- You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be… — Bertolt Brecht
- When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is… — Gwendolyn Brooks