1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.