Top 15 Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

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

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

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

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

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

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 be greater than his nature will allow.

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

The beginning is always today.

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

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.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.