325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. – Victor Frankenstein.

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.