325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight.

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.

It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall.

We look back to times past, and we mass them together, and say in such a year such and such events took place, such wars occupied that year, and during the next there was peace. Yet each year was then divided into weeks, days, minute, and slow-moving seconds, during which there were human minds to note and distinguish them, as now.

You have not studied the histories of ancient times, and perhaps know not the life that breathes in them; a soul of beauty and wisdom which had penetrated my heart of hearts.

Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe.

Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career—no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to.

Nada é mais doloroso para a alma humana do que a lassidão, o trágicomarasmo, que sobrevêm à rápida seqüência de fatos e sentimentos tumultuosos,como a paisagem desoladora da floresta após a passagem destruidora datormenta

El aspecto encantador de la naturaleza me elevaba el ánimo; el pasado se me borraba de la memoria; el presente era tranquilo, y el futuro embellecido, por rayos luminosos de esperanza y expectativas de alegría.