Mary Shelley quotes - page 2

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. (Mary Shelley)
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. View quote
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When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? View quote
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How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! View quote
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The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality. View quote
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. View quote
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once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. View quote
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Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! View quote
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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. View quote
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. View quote
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I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me. (Mary Shelley)
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. View quote
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The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. View quote
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? View quote
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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. View quote
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. View quote
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If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us. View quote
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It may... be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. View quote
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learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own. View quote
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Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man! View quote
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Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin. (Mary Shelley)
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. View quote
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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. View quote
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mary Shelley

Occupation: English Author
Born: August 30, 1797
Died: February 1, 1851
Quotes count: 113
Wikipedia: Mary Shelley

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