Robinson Crusoe Quotes
"I knew I was singled out by Providence for something great."
"In the worst conditions of despair, I found hope and solace in reflection and prayer."
"The realization that my salvation lay not just in rescue from the island, but in redemption from my past sins, was profound."
"Every day brought its own tasks and challenges, but also its own rewards and lessons."
"I learned the hard way that patience and hard work are the true keys to overcoming adversity."
"In my isolation, I discovered the power of faith and the strength that comes from a deep and sincere relationship with God."
"The island, once my prison, became my sanctuary, a place of profound personal transformation."
"My solitude taught me the value of gratitude and the importance of recognizing the blessings in every circumstance."
"Through my trials, I came to understand that true deliverance comes from within, through repentance and a change of heart."
"My journey was not just about survival, but about discovering the true essence of redemption and grace."
"I found myself in a great depth of water, and a current like the sluice of a mill; it carried my boat along with it with such violence that all I could do could not keep her so much as on the edge of it."
"I had now had enough of rambling to sea for some time, and had enough to do for many days to sit still and reflect upon the danger I had been in."
"All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
"It need not be wondered at if all these things took me up most part of the third year of my abode here."
"I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God's providence."
"I improved myself in this time in all the mechanic exercises which my necessities put me upon applying myself to."
"It was the 6th of November, in the sixth year of my reign — or my captivity, which you please — that I set out on this voyage."
"I began now to perceive my powder abated considerably; this was a want which it was impossible for me to supply."
"How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!"
"It would have made a Stoic smile to have seen me and my little family sit down to dinner."
"I was now entered on the seven-and-twentieth year of my captivity in this place."
"My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects."
"I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions."
"This affair put an end to our pursuit of the canoe with the other savages."
"Friday was my interpreter, especially to his father, and, indeed, to the Spaniard too."
"I was filled with horror at the very naming of the white bearded man."
"The poor affectionate creature, every two minutes, turned his head about to see if his father was in the same place."
"I kept my piece in my hand still without firing, being willing to keep my charge ready."
"I found him a most dexterous fellow at managing it, and would make it go almost as swift again as I could."
"I was under continual apprehensions for a good while, and kept always upon my guard."
"I began to take my former thoughts of a voyage to the main into consideration."
"But my thoughts were a little suspended when I had a serious discourse with the Spaniard."
"They had five Portuguese seamen on board, whom they took out of another wreck."
"I asked him all the particulars of their voyage, and found they were a Spanish ship, bound from the Rio de la Plata to the Havanna."
"He told me they had some arms with them, but they were perfectly useless, for that they had neither powder nor ball."
"But never was a fight managed so hardily, and in such a surprising manner as that which followed."
"The bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does."
"He will not go a step out of his way for a prince."
"If you do not meddle with him, he will not meddle with you."
"Eatee me up! eatee me up! me eatee him up; me makee you good laugh."
"No shoot, no shoot; stand still, and you get much laugh."
"You no come no farther? pray you come farther."
"I scarce knew in what manner to receive them."
"We had laughing enough, but still could not imagine what the fellow would do."
"I was amazed at the folly, as I thought it, of my man."
"I have nothing uncommon to take notice of in my passage through France."
"I trusted her so entirely that I was perfectly easy as to the security of my effects."
"I was inured to a wandering life, had no family, nor many relations."
"I had contracted fresh acquaintance; and though I had sold my estate in the Brazils, yet I could not keep that country out of my head."
"I resolved to dispose of my plantation in the Brazils."
"And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure."
"I think I would much rather go a thousand leagues by sea, though I was sure to meet with a storm once a-week."