“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. 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 Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“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 Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“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 Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“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.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“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 Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“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 his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
“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 Wollstonecraft Shelley, quote from Frankestein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Born place: in Somers Town, London, England, The United Kingdom
Born date August 30, 1797
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“Then what have you proved?” I asked. “Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.”
― D.J. MacHale, quote from Raven Rise
“His tone dripping condescension, Lothaire crooned, “Ah children, it’s not yet story time.” He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, “To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Dreams of a Dark Warrior
“War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY”
― Harold G. Moore, quote from We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
“You’re a fucking miracle,” he whispered against my skin and I closed my eyes. I loved that he thought that about me.
“I’m a woman,” I whispered back.
“You’re an angel.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Breathe
“There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane -- as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout -- there may be no more potent force than religion. When the subject of religiously inspired bloodshed comes up, many Americans immediately think of Islamic fundamentalism, which is to be expected in the wake of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions. Muhammad is not the only prophet whose words have been used to sanction barbarism; history has not lacked for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and even Buddhists who have been motivated by scripture to butcher innocents. Plenty of these religious extremists have been homegrown, corn-fed Americans.
Faith-based violence was present long before Osama bin Laden, and it ill be with us long after his demise. Religious zealots like bin Laden, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara, and Dan Lafferty are common to every age, just as zealots of other stripes are. In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly. One has to look no further than individuals who feel compelled to devote their lives to becoming concert pianists, say, or climbing Mount Everest. For some, the province of the extreme holds an allure that's irresistible. And a certain percentage of such fanatics will inevitably fixate on the matters of the spirit.
The zealot may be outwardly motivated by the anticipation of a great reward at the other end -- wealth, fame, eternal salvation -- but the real recompense is probably the obsession itself. This is no less true for the religious fanatic than for the fanatical pianist or fanatical mountain climber. As a result of his (or her) infatuation, existence overflows with purpose. Ambiguity vanishes from the fanatic's worldview; a narcissistic sense of self-assurance displaces all doubt. A delicious rage quickens his pulse, fueled by the sins and shortcomings of lesser mortals, who are soiling the world wherever he looks. His perspective narrows until the last remnants of proportion are shed from his life. Through immoderation, he experiences something akin to rapture.
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off. Anything can happen. Absolutely anything. Common sense is no match for the voice of God...”
― Jon Krakauer, quote from Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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