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 Shelley

Mary Shelley Quotes

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

— Mary Shelley

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

— Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

— Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

— Mary 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 of life.

— Mary Shelley

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

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So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein – more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

— Mary Shelley

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

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I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

— Mary Shelley

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

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We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. – Victor Frankenstein.

— Mary Shelley

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...

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My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

— Mary Shelley

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

— Mary Shelley

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

— Mary Shelley

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

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

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Evil thenceforth became my good.

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I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

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