1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.