Authors — Quotes

Mary Shelley Quotes: 10

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Frankenstein
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Frankenstein
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Frankenstein
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
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.
Frankenstein
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."- Frankenstein p115
Frankenstein