Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which ... -Mary Shelley

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

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Mary Shelley Quotes to Explore

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves....
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food....
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more....
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world....
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and...
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings....
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free....

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As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a ...
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I ...
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death....
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God....
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the de...
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy fr...
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, '...
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a...
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry....
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount....