36 Quotes About Mary-shelley

Science gives us the ability to pull back the skin of lifeand reveal the truth of things. It allows us to understandthe mysteries of mountain-making and falling stars.But knowledge isn't meant to be held as a weapon in a battle to defy our fates and manipulate life over death.Evil lodges too easily in men's hearts.What will happen if they assume the power to create life?

The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley changed the whole world.

Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favorite employment.

I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.