As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky. Victor Hugo nature sea sky It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep. Victor Hugo supper bed sleep The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father. Victor Hugo circles age father Who among us has not sought peace in a song? Victor Hugo song peace Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die. Victor Hugo philosopher remembrance believe Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. Victor Hugo flesh beauty art When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die. Victor Hugo going-away wisdom mean I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. Victor Hugo shore intelligent rivers We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. Victor Hugo behavior would-be people The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. Victor Hugo response motive terrible Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago. Victor Hugo heart winter spring There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think. Victor Hugo tongue wisdom thinking In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul. Victor Hugo mysterious kissing soul 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. Victor Hugo halloween mountain greatness For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose. Victor Hugo ordinary men people True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery. Victor Hugo clearness thinker mystery The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions. Victor Hugo despair soul giving He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. Victor Hugo deeds masters wisdom It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man. Victor Hugo grief sides men Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. Victor Hugo temples believe hands
