5 Quotes by Mary Shelley about misery
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When I reflect, my dear cousin,' said she, 'on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me. Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice, that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote, and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.
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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
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Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?
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What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?
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The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
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