33 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

I have but one passion ; it swallows up every other ; it dwells with my darling books, and is fed by the treasures of beauty and wisdom which they contain.

Ah! It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

Remember that am they creature, I ought to be thy Adam, but am rather the fallen Angel.

Però la venjança m'ha mantingut viu: no gosava morir i deixar viu el meu adversari.

When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow, torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed. They call this retribution. Hateful name! When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.

I am sorry that I am alive to feel this misery and horror.

And so here I am ! I continue to exist—to see one day succeed the other ; to dread night, but more to dread morning, and hail another cheerless day.