Victor Hugo Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

• Labor is life; thought is light.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Labor, Thoughts On Life

• 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

• Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

• Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

  Victor Hugo

  Garden, Names, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

• The true artist can only labor con amore.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Artist, Labor

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