Quotes about Introspection
I think, therefore I doubt.
— Victor Hugo
I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.
— Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
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
To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within.
— Victor Hugo
The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing.
— Victor Hugo
Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel
— Victor Hugo
He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?
— Victor Hugo
He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?
— Victor Hugo
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.
— Victor Hugo
There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It
— Victor Hugo