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Mary Shelley Quotes

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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Birthname

AKA Mary Shelley

Birthday August 30, 1797

Death February 1, 1851

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Nationality Kingdom Of Great Britain

Occupations Essayist, Science Fiction Writer, Playwright, Travel Writer, Novelist

Spouse Percy Bysshe Shelley

Total quotes (43)

We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

True Love Stay By Each Other's Side

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

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Pain Human Mind Change

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He was soon born away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Famous Last Lines Darkness

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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

romance Unimaginable Desire Odd Liking

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And now I began to live. All around me was changed from a dull uniformity to the brightest scene of joy and delight.

— Mary Shelley, via www.online-literature.com

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How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Knowledge Happiness Native aspiration Desire Greatness

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My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them.

— Mary Shelley, Matilda

Pleasure Enjoyment Nature Sky Rain Clouds Heaven

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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Life Despair anguish

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I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Virtue Misery Happiness

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But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Miserable humanity Soul Tree

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

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Dreams Refuge Freedom

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It was now the end of May; the woods were clothed in their freshest verdure, and the sweet smell of the new mown grass was in the fields.

— Mary Shelley, Mathilda

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The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Friendship Companion Childhood

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I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

heart Glow Enthusiasm purpose Soul

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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.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

monsters Attachment

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But my pleasures arose from the contemplation of nature alone, I had no companion: my warm affections finding no return from any other human heart were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.

— Mary Shelley, Mathilda

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He loved her with passion and her tenderness had a charm for him that would not permit him to think of aught but her.

— Mary Shelley, Mathilda

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One thing I will add: if I have ever found kindness, it has not been from Liberals; to disengage myself from them was the first act of my freedom.

— Mary Shelley, The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

kindness Liberal Freedom

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Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance…

— Mary Shelley, Two Works by Mary Shelley

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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone ... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world....

— Mary Shelley, The Journals of Mary Shelley

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I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.

— Mary Shelley, Delphi Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Illustrated)

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Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.

— Mary Shelley, The Last Man

Hope Love Ambition

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My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Love sympathy Misery Hatred Change

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

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Weeping Nature Comfort

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Live, and be happy, and make others so.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

live Be Happy Happiness People Making Change Making People Happy Happy Life Living Life Making A Difference Inspirational Motivational

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