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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?
— 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 became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.
— Mary 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 can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
— Mary Shelley
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
— Mary Shelley
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.
— Mary Shelley
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
— Mary Shelley
The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
— Mary 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
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?
— Mary Shelley
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
— Mary Shelley
Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
— Mary Shelley
What may not be expected in a country of eternal light
— Mary Shelley
My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.
— Mary Shelley
I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
— Mary Shelley
I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?
— Mary Shelley
Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own.
— Mary Shelley
It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer, than that one guilty should escape.
— Mary Shelley
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
— Mary Shelley
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
— Mary Shelley
Firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often
— Mary Shelley
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.
— Mary Shelley
The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.
— P.J. Parker
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
— Mary Shelley
I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.
— Mary Shelley
The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
— 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 modern masters promise very little
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar.
— Mary Shelley
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
— Mary 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
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
Ignominious grave, and I the cause! A thousand times
— Mary Shelley
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
— Mary 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
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
My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.
— Mary Shelley
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
— Mary Shelley
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
— Mary Shelley
Nothing is so precious to a woman's heart as the glory and excellence of him she loves
— Mary Shelley
...I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart
— Mary Shelley
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
— Mary Shelley
The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.
— Mary Shelley
...misery had her dwelling in my heart...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
— Mary Shelley
I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.
— Mary 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
Be a man, or be more than a man.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
— Mary Shelley
Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Evil thenceforth became my good.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The young are always in extremes.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
— Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.
— William Gibson
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
— Mary Shelley
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
— Mary Shelley
My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
— Mary 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
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
— Mary Shelley
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
