Mary shelley was a prominent english novelist and poet, best known for her classic gothic novel frankenstein. She was a revolutionary writer and thinker, and her work has continued to influence literature and culture today. Mary shelley quotes on life, love, and literature are as relevant today as when she wrote them, and her words have been a source of inspiration for many.
Famous Mary Shelley Quotes From Frankenstein
🎋 “When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!” ― Mary Shelley
“What a glorious creature must he have been in the day of his prosperity when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account, we shall be more attached to one another.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her, it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “In other studies, you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit, there is continual food for discovery and wonder.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “One wandering thought pollutes the day.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” ― Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley Quotes About Love
🎋 “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “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.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable—and life is more than a dream.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, then never to love.” ― Mary Shelley
“Once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.” ― Mary Shelley
Feminist Mary Shelley Quotes From A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
🎋 “Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “And having no fear of the devil before my eyes, I venture to call this a suggestion of reason, instead of resting my weakness on the broad shoulders of the first seducer of my frail sex.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “There must be more equality established in society or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction… of being loved by someone who could understand him.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring… nor to dry up the feelings by employing the mind in investigations remote from life.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals (…) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centers in beauty and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race and would rise above the virtue of morals if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection, are very unfit to manage a family because they always stretch their power and use tyranny to maintain a superiority that rests on nothing but the arbitrary distinction of fortune.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men but over themselves.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.” ― Mary Shelley
“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty than the most accomplished beauty!” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “It is not necessary for me always to premise that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Happy would it be for women if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.” ― Mary Shelley
Inspirational Mary Shelley Quotes
🎋 “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” ― Mary Shelley
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Elegance is inferior to virtue.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “The beginning is always today.” ― Mary Shelley
🎋 “Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.” ― Mary Shelley
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Mary shelley’s quotes remain a timeless source of inspiration and enlightenment. Her words offer insight on topics ranging from love and friendship to creativity and ambition, and they can be applied to many different aspects of life.