325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

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.

One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought.

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

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

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.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

Evil thenceforth became my good.