Victor Hugo Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

• It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Lying, Silence

  "Les misérables".

• To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.142, 谷月社

• The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Silence, Moments

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

• We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Silence, Soul

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

• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

• A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Feet, Profound

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