1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.