Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
pain animal scream
We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.
spiritual memories animal
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
pain passion animal
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
dog animal thinking
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
harvest seeds reap
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
inspirational life friendship
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
scottish-writer
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
almost man useless
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
action appears good mark
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
full sure
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
harvest inspirational judge reap seeds
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
good hand holding life matter playing poor
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.