325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

Sólo de ti podía esperar socorro, aunque no me despertaba otro sentimiento que el del odio. ¡Insensible, despiadado creador! ,e habías dotado de percepción y de pasiones, y luego me habías arrojado al mundo para desprecio y horror de la humanidad. Pero sólo de ti podía recabar piedad y desagravio, y en ti decidí buscar esa justicia que en vano trataba de obtener de cualquier ser con forma humana.

Be a man, or be more than a man.

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?

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.

She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that she should return to darkness; her heart felt so light, her spirit so clear and animated, that she could only wonder how it was she had missed happiness so long, when it needed only that she should stretch out her hand to take it.

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so worrisome to me.

You are still, as you ever were, lovely, beautiful beyond expression.