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i'm a creature of fine sensations
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am malicious because I am miserable
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am not well; I am tired with this comfortless estrangement from all that is dear to me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All men hate the wretched.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sorrow only increased with knowledge.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life has more in it than we think; it is all that we have, all that we know.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The young are always in extremes.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Evil thenceforth became my good.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Be a man, or be more than a man.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...misery had her dwelling in my heart...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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,
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
One wondering thought pollutes the day
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The modern masters promise very little
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley