The Mortal Immortal Quotes

“Death! mysterious, ill-visaged friend of weak humanity! Why alone of all mortals have you cast me from your sheltering fold? Oh, for the peace of the grave! the deep silence of the iron-bound tomb! that thought would cease to work in my brain, and my heart beat no more with emotions varied only by new forms of sadness!”
― Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

“And the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is man -- born to perish -- when he wars, as I do, against the established laws of his nature.”
― Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

“Why cannot human language express human thoughts? And how is it that there is a feeling inspired by the excess of beauty, which laps the heart in a gentle but eager flame, which may inspire virtue and love, but the feeling is far too intense for expression?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Beyond Frankenstein: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction

“Sometimes I fancy age advancing upon me. One grey hair I have found. Fool! do I lament? Yes, the fear of age and death often creeps coldly into my heart; and the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life.”
― Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal

“(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time—the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!”
― Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal