325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o’er the waters blue.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.