Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Long, Solitude, Half

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.199, ReadHowYouWant.com

7 Copy quote
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Scary, Midnight, Needs

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.345, ReadHowYouWant.com

13 Copy quote
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 Wollstonecraft Shelley

Tree, Soul, Humanity

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

8 Copy quote
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Simple, Mind, Taste

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

7 Copy quote
Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Grief, Light, Color

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1826). “The last man, by the author of Frankenstein”, p.197

4 Copy quote
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Years, Names, Paradise

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.10, Prestwick House Inc

9 Copy quote
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mind, Study, Capacity

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.80, DOSER Reads

16 Copy quote
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Reflection, Self, Dwelling

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.29, Powell Publications, LLC

12 Copy quote
Evil thenceforth became my good.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Evil

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.263, Collector's Library

4 Copy quote
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sports, Art, Hate

Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

4 Copy quote
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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Angel, Men, Enemy

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library

4 Copy quote
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Devil, Satan, Admire

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao (2012). “The Annotated Frankenstein”, p.210, Harvard University Press

6 Copy quote
We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Half, Made, Creatures

6 Copy quote
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Law, Intellectual, Curiosity

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

7 Copy quote
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Disappointment, Grief, Sight

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.34, DOSER Reads

10 Copy quote
I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and 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; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Morning, Rain, Eye

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

10 Copy quote
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mean, Destination, Solve

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

5 Copy quote
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 Wollstonecraft Shelley

Heart, Thinking, Ties

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Paula R. Feldman, Diana Scott-Kilvert (1987). “The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1822-1844”, Oxford University Press, USA

4 Copy quote
Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Divine Right, Parent, Bears

5 Copy quote
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Blessing, Expectations, Boredom

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.8

4 Copy quote
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Disappointment, Events, Deities

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.42

5 Copy quote
I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Art, Powerful, Eye

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11

7 Copy quote
When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Running, Believe, Angel

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library

6 Copy quote
My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mind, Grows, My Own

4 Copy quote
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Art, Pride, Men

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

4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft

Edgar Allan Poe

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Follow

Born: August 30, 1797
Died: February 1, 1851
Occupation: Novelist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics