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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Travel
Tagged: Forest, Trees, Nature, beauty, Renewal, Spiritual
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tagged: End, Life, Capacity, Evil, Soul, Balance
“I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life, burdens, struggles
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies Of Men And Books
Tagged: Being, Becoming, Life, Living
“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals
Tagged: Service, Love, Friendship
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tagged: Quiet Mind, Fear, Fortune
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Tagged: travel, Experiences
“No man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids; but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
Tagged: Thought, Independence, Individualism, Preference
“Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Selected Poems
Tagged: Death, Poetry, Requiem, Sea
“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Selected Poems
Tagged: Death, Poetry, Sleep, Eternal sleep, Rest
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tagged: Intelligence, Moral, Truth, Man
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tagged: primitive, Duality, Consciousness, Radical
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers
Tagged: Duty, Happiness
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
Tagged: Lies, Silence
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tagged: Suffering, Burden, punishment, Seclusion
“To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best, but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of tragedy which lies on the confines of farce.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged: Life
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
Tagged: travel, Foreign Lands, Explore
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tagged: Curiosity, Conquer
““Oh, doctor,” we cried, “what shall we do? Where is he wounded?” “Wounded? A fiddle-stick’s end!” said the doctor. “No more wounded than you or I. The man has had a stroke, as I warned him. Now, Mrs. Hawkins, just you run upstairs to your husband and tell him, if possible, nothing about it. For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow’s trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Much I care,” returned the doctor. “It’s the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won’t kill you, but if you take one you’ll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don’t break off short, you’ll die—do you understand that?—die, and go to your own place, like the man in the Bible. Come, now, make an effort. I’ll help you to your bed for once.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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