Victor Hugo Mourning Quotations

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.