325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.

What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life,’ that we may live.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.