325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one’s own hapless heart – to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.