💬 Quotes

"It was a simple fact that if you sang, you were not afraid of anything."

"The house was full of people who were not meant to be there, and yet they were there, and because they were there, they were the only people who existed."

"Whatever you give up, you lose. But if you give it away, you keep it forever."

"He understood then that the music was not something that happened to you; it was something that you participated in."

"We are all of us alone, but we are alone together."

"In the beauty of the aria, he found a language for the things he had never been able to say."

"Man is not truly one, but truly two."

"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."

"He gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point."

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

"The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition."

"I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness."

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"The arrow, when it hits the mark, flies with a swifter strike; so we sped on towards the second cleft."

"The divine power, the supreme wisdom, and the primal love created me."

"The first month of the war they killed me. They took my arms and they took my legs and they took my ears and they took my eyes and they took my mouth and they took my nose and it was very funny."

"What is a man? Whatever he is, he is not a piece of meat to be fed to the dogs of war."