Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• 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

• The young are always in extremes.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Youth, Young, Extremes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62

• Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eye, Giants, Faults

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62

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