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Mary Shelley Quote: “I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life,’ that we may live.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy – to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers – their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how was I terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasureable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot of our life’s bark, and ruthlessly carries us on to the shoals.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin. He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “That is also my victim!” he exclaimed; “in his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close! Oh, Frankenstein! generous and self-devoted being! what does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! he is cold; he may not answer me.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o’er the waters blue.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Must I then lose this admirable being? I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathise with and love me. Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one; but I fear I have gained him only to know his value and lose him. I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “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. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “And I call on you, spirits of the dead; and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Why, all his virtues are derived from his station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is powerful, brave.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “It had been the mere plaything of nature, when first it crept out of uncreative void into light; but thought brought forth power and knowledge; and, clad with these, the race of man assumed dignity and authority. It was then no longer the mere gardener of earth, or the shepherd of her flocks; “it carried with it an imposing and majestic aspect; it had a pedigree and illustrious ancestors; it had its gallery of portraits, its monumental inscriptions, its records and titles.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life, nay, more; I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “He appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “By fearing the stranger, by abusing the vulnerable and the outcast, society creates its own monsters.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man’s faculties could be developed, no man’s moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate in my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Such were the professor’s words – rather let me say such the words of the fate – enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “After the murder of Clerval, I returned to Switzerland, heart-broken and overcome. I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror: I abhorred myself.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses. The most learned philosopher knew little more.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “He is eloquent and persuasive; and once his words had even power over my heart: but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I did not participate in these feelings; for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “My uncle had an idea of his being educated as an advocate, that through his interest he might become a judge. But, besides that he is not at all fitted for such an occupation, it is certainly more creditable to cultivate the earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice, of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Begone! I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “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.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions, and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.”
Mary Shelley Quote: “I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.”
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