Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• The young are always in extremes.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Youth, Young, Extremes

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

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Years, Despair, Looks

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.26

  4 Copy quote

• Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Crush, Stars, Memories

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.153, First Avenue Editions

  7 Copy quote

• Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Leadership, Knowledge, Rocks

  26 Copy quote

• The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wind, Accents, Soothing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

  31 Copy quote

• Elegance is inferior to virtue.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Virtue, Elegance, Inferiors

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

  17 Copy quote

• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Writing, Creating, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

  11 Copy quote

• I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ugly, Miserable

  9 Copy quote

• Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Monsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Form

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

  82 Copy quote

• 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

  30 Copy quote

• None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Enticement

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

• It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Heaven, Soul

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.32, Orchises Press

  5 Copy quote

• A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sweet, Philosophy, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

  16 Copy quote

• Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Loneliness, Tranquility, Charm

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.”, p.13

  7 Copy quote

• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Clouds, Shining, Mind

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

  5 Copy quote

• What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Men, Determined

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.12, Courier Corporation

  21 Copy quote

• ...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Misery, Increase

  8 Copy quote

• marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Marriage, Cradle, Graves

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.51

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Looks, Certain, Falsehood

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.190, DOSER Reads

  5 Copy quote

• To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Firsts, Causes, Recourse

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.40

  13 Copy quote

• The modern masters promise very little

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Promise, Littles, Modern

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.73, DOSER Reads

  4 Copy quote

• In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Discovery, Gone, Study

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

• Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Rain, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2012). “The Last Man”, p.596, tredition

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 8

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin