Victor Hugo Sublime Quotations

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.