The Complete Works of Mary Shelley Quotes

“You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.”
― Mary Shelley, Complete Works of Mary Shelley

“avoided explanation, and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. I had a feeling that I should be supposed mad, and this for ever chained my tongue, when I would have given the whole world to have confided the fatal secret.”
― Mary Shelley, The Complete Works of Mary Shelley

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death — a state which I feared yet did not understand. I admired virtue and good feelings, and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers; but”
― Mary Shelley, The Complete Works of Mary Shelley

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, The Complete Works of Mary Shelley

“We know not what all this wide world means; its strange mixture of good and evil. But we have been placed here and bid live and hope. I know not what we are to hope; but there is some good beyond us that we must seek; and that is our earthly task. If”
― Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley: The Ultimate Collection