“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of… — 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
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career—no aim nor end beyond their domestic… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
