Mary Shelley Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies.
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer, than that one guilty should escape.
Once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!
If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.
For nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.
Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.
I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.
Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
Remember , that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it
thus!
thus!
I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.
Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.
What a glorious creature must he have been in the day of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin.
Then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive, and walking about.
I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry - then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. I
I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?
I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annhilation of one of us.
Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
We cannot without depraving our minds endeavour to please a lover or husband but in proportion as he pleases us.
The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove.
After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
Will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear