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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

«My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.»
«Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.»
«Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.»
«I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created»
«The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.»
«The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . .»
«[Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold.»
«Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!»
«You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.»
«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.»

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