The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More Quotes From Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley life-or-deathpaymen It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley difficultyerasremember And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley echoesgriefheart Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley riskkingsimpossible His conversation was marked by its happy abundance. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley abundancewomenconversation Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley creatingdoewriting My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley strugglefatherchildren Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley break-throughlightdark My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley neglectedreading Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley accumulationdearmay Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley tangiblesolitudeenemy Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley selffeelingslove My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley fantasticdreamwriting I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley fateworldthinking The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley guiltyspeaklaw But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley brightnessmoonclouds From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley birtheagleswings When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley cheersoftballwinning Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley atheismhatedlife You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley commencementdisasterevil
