The quotations of

Mary Shelley

English writer

1797–1851

19 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Motivation & Goals and Science.

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Frankenstein (1818), Chapter IVIn context
- Life & Death
- Science
It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
Frankenstein (1818), Chapter VIn context
- Life & Death
- Science
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
Frankenstein (1818), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Happiness
- Life & Death
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?
Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XIn context
- Emotion
- Life & Death
Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?
Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIn context
- Life & Death
- Philosophy
I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.
Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Life & Death

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