Quotes about Reflection
In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an unbearable repartee, we drown out its voice in amusements, distractions, and noise. If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
— Victor Hugo
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
— Victor Hugo
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
— Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I doubt.
— Victor Hugo
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
— Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
— Victor Hugo
To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within.
— Victor Hugo
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
— Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
— Victor Hugo