Victor Hugo Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Positive, Romantic

• 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!

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Soul, Graves

• Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

  Victor Hugo

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Shadow

  Victor Hugo (1938). “Les Miserables: A Novel”

• When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Forever, Heaven

• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

• Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Light, Climbing

• Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Mind, Earth

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

• 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

• And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Reality, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.415, Wordsworth Editions

• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

• Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Hands, Long

• The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

  Victor Hugo

  Stupid, Stupidity, Pieces

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.984, First Avenue Editions

• So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Ignorance, Long

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.3, Victor Hugo

• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

• And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight, Heaven, Earth

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

• Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Depth, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.292, My Ebook Publishing House

• The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Heaven, Earth

• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Self, Mind

• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

• It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Dark, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

• Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Earth, Blind

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