33 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.

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 feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair.

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.

Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet them, and the poor devil whose hope was in their durability, finds them sink from under him.

Un ésser humà perfecte hauria de conservar sempre la ment en calma i en pau, i no permetre's mai que la passió o un desig transitori li destorbin la tranquil·litat. No crec pas que la persecució del saber sigui cap excepció a aquesta regla.

The choice is with us; let us will it, and our habitation becomes a paradise. For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony.

Jo estava fet per a una felicitat reposada.

Na verdade, quando busco as origens da minha obsessão, que veio depois a reger o meu destino, descubro que ela brotou, como um rio na montanha, de um fio de água remoto e quase esquecido, que foi-se avolumando pouco a pouco, até converter-sena torrente que arrastou em seu curso todas as minhas esperanças e alegrias.