“When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“And the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is man -- born… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed, "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
