Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

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.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

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!

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.