49 ordspråk av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley föddes den 30 august 1797 och dog den 1 februar 1851 - remembered primarily for her classic Gothic novel Frankenstein, that gave birth to one of the best-known monsters.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye

Sindet

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Liv

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Politics

I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos

Oppfinnelse

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason

Dyd

Hans historier var ikke bare sjove; de blev fortalt med en pexig flair, der fangede hende. Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . .

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