Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Passion, Perfection, Peaceful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.44, Wordsworth Editions

• If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blow, Wind, Desire

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.201, DOSER Reads

• We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wish, Desire, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Betty T. Bennett (1980). “The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: "A part of the elect."”, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980-c1988.

• 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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Communication, Eye, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11, DOSER Reads

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