MARY SHELLEY QUOTES

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“The beginning is always today.”

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”

“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.” “The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover.”

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

“Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, death-like solitude.” QUOTES JUF

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, 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 become greater than his nature will allow.”

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”

“The brightest minds are those that have emerged from the darkest nights.”

“Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.”

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me, man?”

“The best thing I can do is to write — or learn to write — books that weep.”

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”