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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes

English Author August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851

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For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever. At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify. We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to..."
A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and..."
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
did you not call this a glorious expedition? 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 brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm whcih elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranqualize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the demon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not..."
My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "I could not understand why men who knew all about good and..."
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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