Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Novelist Poet English 1797 – 1851

English author of Frankenstein and essays on women's rights.

374 quotes

"A grateful heart is the foundation of all happiness."
Gratitude
"The pursuit of knowledge has no final destination."
Education
"What lies beyond the veil of our understanding?"
Imagination
"Beauty fades, but truth endures forever."
Beauty
"To create is to assert one's will against the void."
Creativity
"The bonds of family are both chains and anchors."
Family
"Perseverance is the virtue of the desperate."
Perseverance
"We are all capable of becoming monsters given the right circumstances."
Fear
"Wisdom comes not from years, but from reflection."
Wisdom
"The heart knows secrets that the mind refuses to acknowledge."
Truth
"In darkness, we find our truest selves."
Solitude
"Work ennobles the spirit and disciplines the mind."
Work
"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."
Freedom
"The power of words lies in their ability to create worlds."
Literature
"To be forgotten is the second death."
"Ambition without compassion breeds tyranny."
Leadership
"The music of nature surpasses all human composition."
Music
"Patience is the virtue of those who have learned to wait for nothing."
Patience
"We are all strangers to ourselves."
Philosophy
"The moment of creation is also the moment of destruction."
Art
"To understand another is to understand oneself."
Relationships
"The price of knowledge is eternal vigilance."
Knowledge
"Happiness is a fleeting shadow, forever chased but never caught."
Happiness
"The strongest bonds are forged in shared suffering."
Friendship
"Every question contains the seed of its own answer."
Wisdom
"To live authentically is to invite persecution."
Courage
"The future is written in invisible ink."
"Imagination is the only freedom tyrants cannot chain."
Imagination
"The heart's logic is incomprehensible to the mind."
"War begets only more war; peace requires courage."
War