The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut Quotes

“A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“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 pleasure. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“I love my sins like other people.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don't know rightly how to say it, sir.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Man is not truly one, but truly two”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Îmi face silă să iscodesc; prea e stilul Judecății de Apoi. Începi punând o întrebare și parcă-i dai drumul unei pietre. Tu șezi frumușel în vârful dealului, dar piatra s-a pornit la vale, prăvălind și alte pietre după ea și curând te trezești că l-a pocnit în cap pe vreun ins (ultimul lucru la care te-ai gândit) ce-și vedea de treabă în grădinița din spatele casei lui, iar toată familia sa trebuie să-și schimbe numele. Nu, domnule, eu am o regulă personală: cu cât am impresia că nu-i lucru curat, cu atât întreb mai puțin.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“إن الإنسان سيُعرَّف لاحقاً، تعريفاً مطلقاً في النهاية، بأنه محضُ هيكلٍ يقطنه سكان متنوعون ومتنافرون ومستقلون.

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إن عبء حياتنا ولعنتها سيظل ملقى على عاتق الإنسان إلى الأبد، وكلما حاولنا إزاحته عاد ليثقل علينا بوطأة أشد غرابة وهولاً.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Hans tillgivenhet var liksom murgrönan, en frukt av tiden. Den valde inte sitt föremål.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Det är typisk för en blygsam människa att godta den bekantskapskrets som tillfälligheten har format.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“Det är en sak att övervinna sin nyfikenhet. En annan att bli helt fri från den.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut