1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.