💬 Quotes

"It is the people who are hard to understand who generally need understanding the most."

"Niobe, proud of her numerous and beautiful offspring, dared to mock the goddess Latona, bringing down a swift and terrible retribution that left her petrified in eternal grief."

"Without the knowledge of mythology, much of our literature, our art, and even our daily language remains half-understood, for these ancient tales are the very alphabet of imaginative culture."

"The salt of the Earth is seldom sweet: indeed, it has often a very bitter tang."

"To this day I have seldom to look upon the face of any man without seeing something of the grey beast upon it, something of the simian, something of the swine."

"You see, I went on with this research just as lawgivers, theologians, and moralists have been doing for ages past, very much the same question, with only the difference that I have been seeking man directly."

"Their humanity is but piebald; at any moment the beast begins to peep.”"

"Each man to his own work. Moreau had chosen this dark, lonely corner of the earth, far from the interference of law or public opinion, to carry out his monstrous dreams."

"Are we not beasts? ... This is the law. Are we not not beasts?"

"She was fair as the wild lily that blooms in the secret places of the mountains, untouched by the feet of cattle or the dust of the highway."

"The great cities were gone, the immense populations had vanished, the roads had disappeared, and the fields had returned to their primeval wildness."

"Nature had resumed her own; and that which man had conquered with sweat and toil for so many centuries, was recovered by the earth in a few decades."

"In the place of cornfields there were vast impenetrable thickets; where herds of domestic cattle once grazed, wild and savage beasts now roamed through the tangled underwood."

"Man had forgotten his cunning; the machinery of the past was regarded with superstitious awe, like the relics of a race of giants whose history had faded into myth."

"The vast poisonous marsh, which men called the After-Lake, covered the site of the ancient metropolis, exhaling thick vapors under the sullen sky."

"To wander alone through this untrodden wilderness was to feel at once the absolute freedom of the earth and the profound loneliness of a forgotten world."

"Il y a des secrets qu'on livre à la terre pour qu'elle les garde, et d'autres qu'on livre aux hommes pour qu'ils les meurtrissent."

"It is a rare thing for a man to choose his own fate, but it is a rarer thing still for a man to be happy with the fate he has chosen."

"Better to do a kindness today than repent of an unkindness tomorrow."

"If you want to be a hero, you’ve got to suffer. That’s the rule. No pain, no glory."