Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More Quotes From Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley determinedheartmen marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley cradlegravesmarriage To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley recoursecausesfirsts ...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley others-happinesslipsneeds Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley frankensteins-monsterformmonsters Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ruinsprosperitysoul It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley caretaskssorrow 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. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley paradisenamesyears I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reflectiondwellingself The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley halloweenmidnightmoon Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley eyeexpressiondark I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley eyerainmorning It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley asceticismcuttingmonsters But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley soulhumanitytree There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley shelleyfrankensteins-monstersoul A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley studycapacitymind Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley shiningmindclouds I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley hateevilmen It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley womendestinygirl Evil thenceforth became my good. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley evil
