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Mary Shelley Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Weeping, Nature, Comfort
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Pain, Human Mind, Change
“He was soon born away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Famous Last Lines, Darkness
“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
Tagged: Joy
“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
Tagged: romance, Unimaginable Desire, Odd Liking
“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
Tagged: kindness, Liberal, Freedom
“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
“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
Tagged: Age, old age
“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)
Tagged: Safety
“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
Tagged: Hope, Love, Ambition
“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
Tagged: Love, sympathy, Misery, Hatred, Change
“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: live, Be Happy, Happiness, People, Making Change, Making People Happy, Happy Life, Living, Life, Making A Difference, Inspirational, Motivational
“The beginning is always today.”
— Mary Shelley
“It is only four o'clock; but it is winter and the sun has already set: there are no clouds in the clear, frosty sky to reflect its slant beams, but the air itself is tinged with a slight roseate colour which is again reflected on the snow that covers the ground.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Winter
“But my father; my beloved and most wretched father? Would he die? Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him? Might he not many, many years hence, when age had quenched the burning sensations that he now experienced, might he not then be again a father to me?”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: father
“O, hours of intense delight! Short as ye were ye are made as long to me as a whole life when looked back upon through the mist of grief that rose immediately after as if to shut ye from my view. Alas! ye were the last of happiness that I ever enjoyed; a few, a very few weeks and all was destroyed.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Happiness
“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.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Two-Faced, Fake Friends, Pretend Friends, Cowardice, character
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
— Mary Shelley
Tagged: feminism
“Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness. Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. But perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who possess it, appear angelic.”
— Mary Shelley, The Last Man
Tagged: Happiness, Suffering, Angels
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Soul, Change
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Feelings, Success, Life, Death
“I long to grapple with danger, to be excited by fear, to have some task, however slight or voluntary, for each day's fulfilment. I shall witness all the variety of appearance, that the elements can assume — I shall read fair augury in the rainbow — menace in the cloud — some lesson or record dear to my heart in everything. Thus around the shores of deserted earth, while the sun is high, and the moon waxes or wanes, angels, the spirits of the dead, and the ever-open eye of the Supreme, will behold the tiny bark, freighted with Verney — the LAST MAN.”
— Mary Shelley, The Last Man
Tagged: danger, Excitement
“These may be termed Utopian dreams. – Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason, till, becoming dependent only on him for the support of my virtue, I view, with indignation, the mistaken notions that enslave my sex.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. In fact, the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason; or on what foundation rests the throne of God?”
— Mary Shelley, A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
Tagged: feminism, Submission, God
“I found if sorrow was dead within me, so was love and desire of sympathy. Yet sorrow only slept to revive more fierce, but love never woke again--its ghost, ever hovering over my father's grave, alone survived--since his death all the world was to me a blank except where woe had stampt its burning words telling me to smile no more—the living were not fit companions for me, and I was ever meditating by what means I might shake them all off, and never be heard of again.”
— Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Tagged: Sorrow
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