1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Ne može se spriječiti misao da se vrati samoj sebi, kao što se ne može spriječiti more da se vrati obali. Za mornara, to se zove plima; za krivca, to se zove grižnja savjesti. Bog podiže dušu kao i ocean.

Ima jedan prizor koji je veći od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je veći od neba, to je unutrašnjost duše.

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.

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!