Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?
And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it. By
what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive.
There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men.
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.
Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.
You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight.
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it,
Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.