Top 380 Mary Shelley Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it an honourable undertaking.”

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352. “I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had filled me with the sublime ecstacy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy. The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind, and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.”

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353. “Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike.”

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354. “Los acontecimientos que influyen decisivamente en nuestros destinos a menudo tienen su origen en sucesos triviales.”

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355. “Clerval desired the intercourse of the men.”

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356. “My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy;.”

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357. “Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.”

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358. “Remember that am they creature, I ought to be thy Adam, but am rather the fallen Angel.”

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359. “I have consented to return, if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more philosophy than I possess, to bear this injustice with patience.”

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360. “I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me; whose eyes would reply to mine.”

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361. “I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly – if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore – often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever.”

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362. “En tiempos de desgracias debemos luchar contra nuestros destinos y esforzarnos por que estos no nos venzan.”

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363. “Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace I should despair and die, often left some mark to guide me.”

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364. “A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.”

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365. “None knew of their love except their own two hearts...”

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366. “A human being in perfection ought.”

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367. “Revenge! – the word seemed balm to me; I hugged it, caressed it, till, like a serpent, it stung me.”

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368. “As for my father, his desires and exertions were bounded to the2 again seeing me restored to health and peace of mind.”

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369. “Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!”

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370. “I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.”

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371. “Me has dado sentimientos y pasiones, pero me has abandonado al desprecio y al asco de la humanidad.”

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372. “After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I.”

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373. “Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall.”

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374. “The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with.”

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375. “Si el estudio al cual uno se entrega tiene una tendencia a debilitar los afectos y a destruir el gusto que se tiene por esos sencillos placeres en los cuales nada debe interferir, entonces esa disciplina es con toda seguridad perjudicial, es decir, impropia de la mente humana.”

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376. “We returned again, with torches;.”

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377. “O, daca macar o singura voce m-ar imbarbata soptindu-mi ca am dreptate! Curajul si hotararea mea sunt neabatute, dar sperantele se clatina si sufletul imi sta adesea in cumpana. Sunt pe cale de a porni intr-o calatorie lunga si grea si voi avea nevoie de toata indrazneala si taria pentru a invinge restristile. Va trebui nu numai sa-i imbarbatez pe ceilalti cand vor sovai, ci uneori si pe mine insumi.”

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378. “For the moment that I did believe her guilty, I felt an anguish that I could not have long sustained. Now my heart is lightened. The innocent suffers; but she whom I thought amiable and good has not betrayed the trust I reposed in her, and I am consoled.”

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379. “If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken.”

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380. “For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”

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381. “Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;.”

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382. “I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”

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383. “For whilst I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires.”

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384. “If I should be engaged, I will at least make notes.”

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385. “Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed.”

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386. “We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile: a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.”

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