Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 30, 1797 Death: February 1, 1851
Live, and be happy, and make others so..
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change..
Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness..
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more..
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another..
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye..
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude..
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free..
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other..
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer..
Elegance is inferior to virtue..
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to b….
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!.
There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he on….
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated..
But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness..
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand..
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranqu….
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful..
The young are always in extremes..
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil..