There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: wisdom life age love romance relationships
Justine shook her head mournfully. "I do not fear to die," she said; "that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBut soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyEverything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBut her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWho was I? What was I? Whence did I come?
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyТолкова време трябва да мине, преди разумът да се убеди, че тази, която си гледал всеки ден и чието съществуване ти се е струвало част от собствения ти живот, си е отишла завинаги; че е възможно да са угаснали ясните, любими очи, че звукът на обичния глас, тъй галещ слуха, е заглъхнал вовеки и никога няма отново да прозвъни.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: death-loss
Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!
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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 ShelleyTags: frankenstein monster
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: horror gothic frankenstein mary-shelley
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