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Life Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part…
- To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
- Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
- I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had…
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
- The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented…
- A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows…
- Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
- How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
- Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from…
- The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
- But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and…
- I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle