Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may....

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds....

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love....

Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to....

I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of....

Volume II: Chapter V What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite....

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope,....

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise....

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence....