Quotes about Mystery
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
— Victor Hugo
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
— Victor Hugo
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
a compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
— Victor Hugo
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.
— Victor Hugo
So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity, He also, while the olive trees were shivering in the fierce breathe of the Infinite, had long put away from his hand the fearful chalice that appeared before him, dripping with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths.
— Victor Hugo
Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.
— Victor Hugo
Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
— Victor Hugo
It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.
— Victor Hugo
Adorable ambuscades of providence!
— Victor Hugo