Mary Shelley

"We are doomed by our capacity to hope."

"Beauty exists even in the darkest places."

"To write is to confess the secrets we cannot speak."

"Change is the only constant in this mortal world."

"Imagination is more powerful than reality."

"The greatest gift is to be truly seen by another."

"Faith sustains us when reason fails."

"Our dreams are often more real than our waking lives."

"To be alive is to be forever seeking answers."

"The world rewards action, not intention."

"Kindness is an act of rebellion against indifference."

"We carry the ghosts of our past wherever we go."

"True heroism is enduring when victory seems impossible."

"The mind creates its own prison."

"Acceptance is the path to peace."

"The beginning is always today."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"We are driven by forces we scarcely understand towards ends we vaguely discern."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me."

"You will discover that the heart was made to be broken."

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"The cupidity of my friend has rendered my life a hell."

"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have to existence."

"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 inspire love, I will cause fear."

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."

"Science has done much, but it has not done everything."

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind."