Victor Hugo Quotes

Victor Hugo Quotes.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible wor

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Victor Hugo
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo