Quotes from Victor Hugo
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.
- Victor Hugo
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
- Victor Hugo
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- Victor Hugo
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
- Victor Hugo
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
- Victor Hugo
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
- Victor Hugo
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
- Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Victor Hugo
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
- Victor Hugo
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
- Victor Hugo
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
- Victor Hugo
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
- Victor Hugo