Top 400 Mary Shelley Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Why cannot human language express human thoughts? And how is it that there is a feeling inspired by the excess of beauty, which laps the heart in a gentle but eager flame, which may inspire virtue and love, but the feeling is far too intense for expression?”

— Mary Shelley

352. “But I did not believe my errors to be irretrievable; and, after much consideration, I resolved to return to the cottage, seek the old man, and by my representations win him to my party.”

— Mary Shelley

353. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

354. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

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

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

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358. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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369. “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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370. “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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371. “None knew of their love except their own two hearts...”

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372. “A human being in perfection ought.”

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

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374. “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.”

— Mary Shelley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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387. “Let me then look on thy dear eyes, and, reading love in them, drink intoxicating pleasure.”

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388. “Ye weep, unhappy ones; but these are not your last tears! Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!”

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389. “I feel death to be neart at hand and I am calm.”

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390. “I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever.”

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391. “We had for many years trod the highway of life hand in hand, and still thus linked, we might step within the shades of death;.”

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392. “As I grew older books in some degree supplied the place of human intercourse:.”

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393. “In life I dared not; in death, I unveil the mystery.”

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394. “I hated them, and began, last and worst degradation, to hate myself. I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.”

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395. “He shall find that I can feel my injuries; he shall learn to dread my revenge!”

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396. “In truth I am in love with death;.”

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397. “Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition.”

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398. “I have learned the language of despair: I have it all by heart, for I am Despair;.”

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399. “Misery was my element, and nothing but what was miserable could approach me;.”

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400. “Can the madman, as he clanks his chains, hope? Can the wretch, led to the scaffold, who when he lays his head on the block, marks the double shadow of himself and the executioner, whose uplifted arm bears the axe, hope? Can the ship-wrecked mariner, who spent with swimming, hears close behind the splashing waters divided by a shark which pursues him through the Atlantic, hope? Such hope as theirs, we also may entertain!”

— Mary Shelley