Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Quotes

“I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

“The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings

“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [and The Bottle Imp]

“Non mi piace fare troppe domande, ti fanno pensare al giorno del giudizio universale. Porre una domanda è come mettere in moto una pietra: te ne stai tranquillo e beato sulla sommità di un colle e la pietra comincia a rotolare trascinando con sé altri detriti, e tutto ad un tratto un buon vecchietto, l'ultima persona al mondo cui avresti pensato, si busca un colpo sulla zucca mentre vanga il suo orticello e così la sua famiglia è costretta a cambiar nome [...]”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lo strano caso del dottore Jekyll e del signor Hyde - Il trafugatore di salme - Un capitolo sui sogni

“I have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [and The Bottle Imp]

“I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning.

- Dr. Jekyll”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [+ The Body Snatcher, The Bottle Imp, Markheim and Weir of Hermiston]

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [+ The Body Snatcher, The Bottle Imp, Markheim and Weir of Hermiston]

“The problem, though, was that Thomas had never before been taught by the teacher named failure. As the broken Thomas spent hours by the mural and hours more lying in bed that night trying to fuse his shattered psyche with misguided hope and dubious possibility, he had no understanding of how to do so. In other words, he had all the raw materials but lacked the proper tools. As is often the case in such situations, his new identity was chaotic and distorted, a little more Picasso than da Vinci, or some may argue, his transformation left him a little more Mr. Hyde than Dr. Jekyll.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America