Victor Hugo Quotes

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.