Mary Shelley

"I have learned that true strength lies in compassion."

"The written word has the power to immortalize the soul."

"I seek not for power, but for understanding and peace."

"My greatest mistake was my greatest lesson."

"There is a magic in the starlit sky that speaks to the human heart."

"The beginning is always today."

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

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

"You will hear of wars and rumours of wars."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

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

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

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"My father is going into the country, and I am going with him to spend the summer and autumn."

"The cup of life is not so bitter after all, whenever there are kind hands to help us drink it."

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"Sorrow only lasts so long as we have the power to be sad."

"We learn from failure, not from success."

"The whole human race is bathed in blood and I have lost the power of shedding tears."

"Man! I shall not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee."

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine."

"You do not appear to me to be in an unhappy family situation."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expound."

"I have been blighted by a peculiar fatality."

"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."

"How great the rewards of virtue, how immense are the treasures of the virtuous."

"Ignorance has certain charms for the thoughtless."

"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."

"I have a persuasion that I shall be much happier."

"Despair has its own calms."