Mary Shelley Quotes & Sayings

“What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”

“Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.”

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”