Mary Shelley

Novelist English 1797 – 1851

English author of Frankenstein, pioneering science fiction.

380 quotes

"Leadership requires both vision and compassion."
Leadership
"Money cannot purchase the things that matter most."
Money
"The human spirit is resilient beyond measure."
Strength
"Creativity flourishes in the soil of freedom."
Creativity
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Justice
"We are all subject to the same natural laws."
Nature
"The power of words can never be underestimated."
Literature
"Hope is the anchor of the human soul."
Hope
"In darkness, we discover our true selves."
Solitude
"The greatest adventure is within ourselves."
Adventure
"The beginning is always today."
Time
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
Change
"I am malicious because I am miserable."
Wisdom
"What do the senseless injury and misery we witness daily by the roadside teach us about ourselves?"
Philosophy
"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind."
Peace
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
Love
"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."
Knowledge
"How strange it is that we call this world a dead matter, and ourselves living spirits."
Philosophy
"I am not evil; I am only unfortunate."
Strength
"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought."
Creativity
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Power
"I could not belong to those who were not outcasts."
Solitude
"Death may be the end, but before that, we must live."
Life
"In my younger years, I believed that the whole world must feel as I felt."
"We are all monsters, in our own ways."
Truth
"Art expresses the infinite within the finite."
Art
"To be human is to feel both joy and sorrow deeply."
Life
"Knowledge is a burden as well as a gift."
Knowledge
"Nature is the most perfect guide we possess."
Nature