Mary Shelley citáty

„Nechci, aby ženy ovládaly muže. Chci, aby ovládaly samy sebe.“

„Jestliže je lež tolik podobná pravdě, kdo si pak může být jist, že je opravdu šťasten, Viktore?“

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Kniha Frankenstein

„Není nic tak bolestného pro lidskou mysl jako velká a náhlá změna.“

„Co jsem byl já? Z mého stvoření a stvořitele jsem byla naprosto ignorant, ale věděla jsem, že nemám žádné peníze, žádné přátele, žádný druh majetku. Kromě toho mě čekala postava, která byla ohavně deformovaná a odporná; Nebyla jsem ani stejné povahy jako člověk. Byla jsem angilnejší než oni a dokázala jsem vydržet horší stravu; Snesla jsem extrémy tepla a chladu s malými zraněními; moje postava daleko převyšovala jejich. Když jsem se rozhlédla, neviděla a neslyšela jsem nikoho, jako jsem byla já. Byla jsem tedy monstrum, skvrna na zemi, od které všichni lidé uprchli a koho všichni lidé odmítli?“

„Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.“

„I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Zdroj: Frankenstein

„I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Zdroj: Frankenstein

„A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Zdroj: Frankenstein

„The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Zdroj: Frankenstein

„The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.“

„Live, and be happy, and make others so.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Zdroj: Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 5

„Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Justine Moritz in Ch. 8
Frankenstein (1818)

„Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Robert Walton in "Letter 1"
Zdroj: Frankenstein (1818)
Kontext: I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

„A truce to philosophy! — Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Zdroj: Frankenstein

„The beginning is always today.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man

The Last Man (1826)

„No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.“

„Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.“

Varianta: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

„No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.“

„What was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 4
Frankenstein (1818)
Kontext: No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.