Life Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

If this is death, it is easier than life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We can only know others by ourselves.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“And life is all a variorum, at the best.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Come back?  There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life's endeavor springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“For I think we may look upon our little private war with death somewhat in this light. If a man knows he…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“As a monarch who should care more for the outlying colonies he knows on the map or through the report of his…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

— Robert Louis Stevenson