"Robinson Crusoe" Quotes

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side.

I am cast upon a horrible desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.

I have often thought of the happy life I led in my father's house, and then the miserable, wicked life I led here.

I was agitated with the horror of the dream, and all the day I had sad thoughts.

I was like one dead or stupefied, and had no more sense or motion than a stock.

I have no enemies, and I have no friends.

I would have ventured to have spoken to him, but he was gravely silent, and I could not find in my heart to disturb him.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

It is never too late to be wise.