Top 380 Mary Shelley Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.”

— Mary Shelley

352. “These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent.”

— Mary Shelley

353. “His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations:.”

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

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355. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

356. “What was I? The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans.”

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357. “After a slight repose, during which the spirits of the dead hovered round, and instigated me to toil and revenge, I prepared for my journey.”

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358. “I indeed perceptibly gained on it; and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.”

— Mary Shelley

359. “The monster continued to utter wild and incoherent self-reproaches.”

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360. “We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh, or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability!”

— Mary Shelley

361. “But I journey towards England, and I may there find consolation.”

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362. “It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever – that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar, and dear to the ear, can be hushed, never more to be heard.”

— Mary Shelley

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

— Mary Shelley

364. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

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

— Mary Shelley

366. “I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

— Mary Shelley

367. “My warm affections finding no return... were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”

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368. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

369. “He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again.”

— Mary Shelley

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

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371. “Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants, and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.”

— Mary Shelley

372. “I am sorry that I am alive to feel this misery and horror.”

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

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374. “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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375. “I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.”

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376. “Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet them, and the poor devil whose hope was in their durability, finds them sink from under him.”

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377. “I was a solitary being, and from my infant years, ever since my dear nurse left me, I had been a dreamer.”

— Mary Shelley

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

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379. “You have suffered a land-, I a sea-wreck.”

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

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

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

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383. “They desired, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise, that if the vessel should be freed, I would instantly direct my course southward.”

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384. “Sometimes when I had planned the next morning for my escape a word of more than usual affection from her lips made me postpone my resolution. I reproached myself bitterly for what I called a culpable weakness; but this weakness returned upon me whenever the critical moment approached, and I never found courage to depart.”

— Mary Shelley

385. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

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.”

— Mary Shelley