Victor Hugo Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“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!”

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

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

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”

“To love is to act.”

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.”