Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who have it, appear angelic

He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.

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.

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

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

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

The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!