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Mary Shelley Quotes

Total quotes: 43
“My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them.”
— Mary Shelley, Matilda
Tagged: Pleasure, Enjoyment, Nature, Sky, Rain, Clouds, Heaven
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Weeping, Nature, Comfort
“We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: True Love, Stay By Each Other's Side
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Pain, Human Mind, Change
“He was soon born away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Famous Last Lines, Darkness
“And now I began to live. All around me was changed from a dull uniformity to the brightest scene of joy and delight.”
— Mary Shelley
Tagged: Joy
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: romance, Unimaginable Desire, Odd Liking
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Knowledge, Happiness, Native, aspiration, Desire, Greatness
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Life, Despair, anguish
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Virtue, Misery, Happiness
“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Miserable, humanity, Soul, Tree
“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Dreams, Refuge, Freedom
“It was now the end of May; the woods were clothed in their freshest verdure, and the sweet smell of the new mown grass was in the fields.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Spring
“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Friendship, Companion, Childhood
“I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: heart, Glow, Enthusiasm, purpose, Soul
“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, Frankenstein
Tagged: monsters, Attachment
“But my pleasures arose from the contemplation of nature alone, I had no companion: my warm affections finding no return from any other human heart were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Nature
“He loved her with passion and her tenderness had a charm for him that would not permit him to think of aught but her.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
“One thing I will add: if I have ever found kindness, it has not been from Liberals; to disengage myself from them was the first act of my freedom.”
— Mary Shelley, The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tagged: kindness, Liberal, Freedom
“Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance…”
— Mary Shelley, Two Works by Mary Shelley
“At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone ... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world....”
— Mary Shelley, The Journals of Mary Shelley
Tagged: Age, old age
“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.”
— Mary Shelley, Delphi Complete Works of Mary Shelley(Illustrated)
Tagged: Safety
“Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.”
— Mary Shelley, The Last Man
Tagged: Hope, Love, Ambition
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Love, sympathy, Misery, Hatred, Change
“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Solitude, Deep, dark
“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: live, Be Happy, Happiness, People, Making Change, Making People Happy, Happy Life, Living, Life, Making A Difference, Inspirational, Motivational
“The beginning is always today.”
— Mary Shelley
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Beware, Fearless, Power, strength, Selfie Captions
“The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.”
— Mary Shelley, Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843 by Mary Shelley- Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Tagged: Italy, Magic
“It is only four o'clock; but it is winter and the sun has already set: there are no clouds in the clear, frosty sky to reflect its slant beams, but the air itself is tinged with a slight roseate colour which is again reflected on the snow that covers the ground.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Winter
“But my father; my beloved and most wretched father? Would he die? Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him? Might he not many, many years hence, when age had quenched the burning sensations that he now experienced, might he not then be again a father to me?”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: father
“O, hours of intense delight! Short as ye were ye are made as long to me as a whole life when looked back upon through the mist of grief that rose immediately after as if to shut ye from my view. Alas! ye were the last of happiness that I ever enjoyed; a few, a very few weeks and all was destroyed.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Happiness
“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Two-Faced, Fake Friends, Pretend Friends, Cowardice, character
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
— Mary Shelley
Tagged: feminism
“Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness. Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. But perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who possess it, appear angelic.”
— Mary Shelley, The Last Man
Tagged: Happiness, Suffering, Angels
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Soul, Change
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. 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, Frankenstein
Tagged: Feelings, Success, Life, Death
“I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Death, departure, funeral, Spirit, Peace
“I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy?”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Misery, Despair, Depression, Bitterness, Loathing
“She was a singular being, and, like me, inherited much of the peculiar disposition of our father. Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark, but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance, and to feel that the soul which was their soul, comprehended an universe of thought in its ken.”
— Mary Shelley, The Last Man
Tagged: Eyes
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