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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes



Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - (10 quotes)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Beginning category:

The beginning is always today. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Change category:

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. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Desire category:

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Dreams category:

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Emotion category:

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Gender category:

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Invention category:

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Knowledge category:

-Frankenstein...
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Purpose category:

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - From the Solitude category:

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)