Victor Hugo Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Faith, Confidence, Health

• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Romantic

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Bird, Soul

• The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

  Victor Hugo

  Bird, Soul, Cages

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

• The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Clouds, Bird

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

  Victor Hugo

  Eggs, Bird, Earth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

• The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

• They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Flower, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Sunshine, Bird

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Bird, Flying

  "Les Miserables".

• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Hymns, Profound

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.238, Dawson Bros.

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