Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

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.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

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

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

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