Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"We are the authors of our own tragedy."

"Beauty resides in the spaces between heartbeats."

"The search for truth often leads to bitter enlightenment."

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."

"To create art is to strip the soul bare."

"The mind, once expanded, never returns to its original dimensions."

"Love and hate are separated by only the thinnest of veils."

"The greatest adventure is the journey within."

"Gratitude is the antidote to despair."

"The power to destroy is not the power to create."

"In the end, we are all measured by our choices."

"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose."

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

"How wonderfully are we made; and how miraculous are the operations of the several parts of our bodies!"

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

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

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm."

"Some supreme fate has arisen and revolved around us."

"How inconsistent is man, how strange."

"I regard the foundation of our empire as laid in the free possession of land."

"Sweet sleep! thou art more delicious than the finest wine."

"The mind is capable of anything."

"All that we know is nothing in comparison with that which remains to be discovered."

"I busied myself to think of a story which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature."

"The very fact that he is mortal should make his life more precious."

"To ascend to these heights requires fortitude."

"Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm."

"I am the only being whose doom is to be deprived of a funeral."