Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
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Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
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Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
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But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
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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.
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When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
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Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.
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But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
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I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
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When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.
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The modern masters promise very little
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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
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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.
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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Evil thenceforth became my good.
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The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
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All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
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Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
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The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
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There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
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I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.
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Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Born: August 30, 1797
- Died: February 1, 1851
- Occupation: Novelist
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