Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Regret, Heart, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.21

• Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Love, Self, Feelings

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

• How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Feelings, Excess, Strange

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

• Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Feelings, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.76, Orchises Press

• These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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

• The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Feelings, Different, Human Nature

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Agony, Feelings, Misery

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

• 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.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Pain, Feelings, Attention

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press

• It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Girl, Women, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.61

• Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Running, Strong, Children

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.45

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