Quotes about Reflection
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
— Victor Hugo
By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.
— Victor Hugo
It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.
— Victor Hugo
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
— Victor Hugo
The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.
— Victor Hugo
There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.
— Victor Hugo
The mind is a garden
— Victor Hugo
Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. During this journey in 1825
— Victor Hugo
The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.
— Victor Hugo
These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst
— Victor Hugo
He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In
— Victor Hugo
It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.
— Victor Hugo