Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.