Mary Shelley citáty
Mary Shelley
Datum narození: 30. srpen 1797
Datum úmrtí: 1. únor 1851
Další jména: ਮੇਰੀ ਸ਼ੈਲੀ
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley byla anglická spisovatelka tvořící v období romantismu, která psala mimo jiné gotické romány, známá je především svým dílem Frankenstein. Byla druhou manželkou Percyho Bysshe Shelleyho. Wikipedia
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Citáty Mary Shelley
„Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.“
— 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
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Zdroj: Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 5
„Live, and be happy, and make others so.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Justine Moritz in Ch. 8
Frankenstein (1818)
— 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.
„No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.“
Varianta: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
— 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.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
The monster in Ch. 13
Frankenstein (1818)
Kontext: 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?
I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!