Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so....

At these moments I took refuge in the most perfect solitude. I passed whole days on the lake alone in....

Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light....

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

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

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

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

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the....

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.