Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes about Memories

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sympathy, Death, Memories

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories, Forget

'Kidnapped' (1886) ch. 18

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories, Class, Scotland

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Spiritual, Memories, Animal

Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strong, Memories, Men

Robert Louis Stevenson “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, Lulu.com

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories, Men, Should

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.487, e-artnow

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories, Tree, Ancestry

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.36, VM eBooks

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories, First Love, Sea

Robert Louis Stevenson, Roslyn Jolly (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks