Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Revenge only deepens the wound it seeks to heal."

"Every moment that we lose slips from us like a golden dream."

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel."

"Sorrow only intensifies by delay and concealment."

"The prospect of eternal loneliness is the cruelest punishment."

"My vices are the children of a forced solitude."

"A man is as happy as he chooses to be."

"The study of nature ennobles the mind."

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."

"The heart that is conscious of its own rectitude, fears nothing."

"Science itself may be rendered subservient to the destruction of human happiness."

"Seek knowledge for its own sake, not for power."

"The world before me is wide, and a wide inheritance awaits."

"Dreams are the imagination's way of processing the impossible."

"True nobility lies not in birth but in virtue and wisdom."

"To govern myself with a steady hand requires constant vigilance."

"Loneliness is the punishment of those who seek solitude."

"What is the root of all evil but ignorance?"

"I cannot describe the agony of this suspense."

"Nature speaks a language that transcends words."

"The unexamined life is not worth living, yet examination brings only pain."

"Forgive me if I caused thee suffering; I knew not the weight of my actions."

"Life without purpose is merely existence."

"The past haunts us more than any specter."

"I will be with you on your wedding night."

"Art and science are the twin pillars of civilization."

"To love is to accept the possibility of infinite suffering."

"The greatest triumph is the conquest of one's own heart."

"Time cannot heal what ambition has destroyed."

"Hope is the cruel companion of the damned."