Mary Shelley Quotes

“To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:love friendship

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

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:love feelings misery

“if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:love fear

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

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:life pain

“To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:life death understanding

“After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:life

“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.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:life reality dream

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

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:happiness virtue misery

“I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:happiness

“Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:happiness truth

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