Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Lakes, Sorrow, Earth

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.72, Wordsworth Editions

• How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Grief, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.180

• Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sorrow

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

• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sorrow, Care, Tasks

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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