Victor Hugo Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”
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  I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Stars, Men

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

• The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Light, Soul

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

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Soul And Body

• If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Les Mis

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: Works Answer Words, 1862.

• Wisdom is the health of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Soul

• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Free Education, Soul

• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Night, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Bird, Soul

• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

• To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Soul, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.637, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Night, Sky

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

• What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Addresses, Gloomy

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

• Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Trying, Body

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

• Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Hands, Two

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

• 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

• 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

• I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Soul, World

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.21

• Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Men, Sea

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

• Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Two, Soul

• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Stars, Fall

• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

  Victor Hugo

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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

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