Victor Hugo Shadow Quotations

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.