Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes

“(...) brzemię życia musi przytłaczać ludzkie barki, kiedy zaś człowiek próbuje je zrzucić, brzemię powraca w innej, obcej formie i powoduje udrękę nie do zniesienia.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Przekleństwo ludzkości polega więc na tym, że dwie sprzeczne natury są ze sobą na wieki złączone; że w otchłani dręczonego sumienia muszą toczyć tragiczne, niekończące się boje.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Chociaż niewątpliwie dwulicowy, nie byłem obłudnikiem. Obie moje połowy postępowały najzupełniej szczerze. Byłem sobą, gdy zerwawszy tamy, nurzałem się w brudzie. Ale byłem też sobą, gdy w jasnym świetle dnia pracowałem nad postępami nauki lub niosłem ulgę cierpieniom i nędzy.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Jestem człowiekiem, który straszliwie zgrzeszył, ale też odkupił swą winę nie mniej straszliwym cierpieniem.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Staram się unikać zadawania pytań, które zbyt mocno przywodzą na myśl dzień sądu ostatecznego. Pytanie jest jak kamień wywołujący lawinę. Siedzisz spokojnie na szczycie wzgórza, a kamień spada w dół, poruszając inne, i wreszcie jakiś niepozorny dziadyga, o którym nawet przez moment nie myślałeś, dostaje w łeb w swoim ogródku za domem, i cała szanowana dotąd rodzina musi szybko zmieniać nazwisko. O nie, mój drogi, stworzyłem własne prawo: im niezwyklejsza wydaje się sprawa, tym mniej o nią pytam.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“the ugly face of my iniquity stared into my soul.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I had voluntarily stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptations; and in my case, to be tempted, however slightly, was to fall.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Other Stories

“Do you think I have no more generous aspirations than to sin, and sin, and sin, and, at the last, sneak into heaven?”
― R. L. Stevenson, Mr. Jekyll and Hyde, the strange case of:

“Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that 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

“His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ!”
― Stevenson R.L., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Ah, efendim, insanı dinlenmekten alıkoyan şey hasta bir vicdandır.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next,”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Y cuando miré, entonces, en el espejo aquel ídolo perverso, tuve conciencia, no de un sentimiento repulsivo, sino más bien de la brusca transición producida y del buen éxito de mis tentativas. Aquel ídolo, por lo demás, era yo mismo.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, El Extraño Caso del Doctor Jekyll y el Señor Hyde (Anotado)

“todo pecador tembloroso, en la hora de la tentación, se encuentra frente a las mismas adulaciones y a los mismos miedos, y luego éstos tiran los dados por él.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde

“E accadde a me come accade a tanta parte dei miei simili, di scegliere la parte migliore e di non avere la forza necessaria a tenerla invita.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Ho imparato che l'uomo deve sopportare per sempre il peso e il destino della sua vita: quando tentiamo di disfarcene, essi ci ritornano addosso con nuova e più terribile violenza.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Mi avvicinai alla verità, la cui parziale scoperta doveva portarmi a un così spaventoso naufragio: che l'uomo non è in verità uno ma duplice.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Ambedue le mie nature erano assolutamente spontanee.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Estoy decididamente en contra de toda clase de preguntas: Me recuerdan demasiado el día del Juicio Final. Hacer una pregunta es como arrojar una piedra. Uno se queda sentado tranquilamente en la cima de una colina y allá va la piedra arrastrando otras cuantas a su paso hasta que al final van a dar todas a la cabeza de un pobre infeliz (aquel a quien menos había pensado) que no se ha movido de su jardín, y resulta que la familia tiene que cambiar de nombre. No señor. Yo siempre me he atenido a una norma: cuanto más raro me parece el caso menos preguntas hago”.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizers”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Original 1886 Unabridged Edition – A Gothic Classic Exploring Duality, Identity, and the Human Psyche