Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

His face was filled with broken commandments.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

If you haven't met Satan face to face, it's because you are running in the same direction.

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.