Victor Hugo Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Positive, Romantic

• Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Sweet, Profound, Heaven

  "Les miserables".

• Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Heaven, Magnificence

• There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Character, Sea, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.892, BookCaps Study Guides

• 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

• Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Brother, Stars

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Eye, Thinking

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

• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

• 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

• I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Crush, Night

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

• ...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, White, Joy

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.96, My Ebook Publishing House

• This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Heaven, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1894). “The novels, complete and unabridged, of Victor Hugo”

• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Eye, Angel

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

• Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Doors, Heaven

• Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Cat, Fate

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

• 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

• Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Winter, Men

  Victor Hugo, Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1862). “Les Misérables”, p.155

• Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

  Victor Hugo

  Opportunity, Heaven, Half

• 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

• That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Two

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Hands, Heaven

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

• 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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Heaven, Earth

• A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Heaven, New Life

• It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Men, Names

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