Victor Hugo Shadow Quotations

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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

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

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

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

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

To contemplate is to look at shadows.