Quotes - Achilles Hicks (Greenvale, NY) Showing 1-19 of 19

#1

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

#2

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: life

2214 likes

#3

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley

1330 likes

#4

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

712 likes

#5

“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.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, monster

528 likes

#6

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

513 likes

#7

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankinstein

312 likes

#8

“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

313 likes

#9

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18080 likes

#10

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

1985 likes

#11

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, memory, scars

620 likes

#12

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

782 likes

#13

“Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

239 likes

#14

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8752 likes

#15

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

3603 likes

#16

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: romance

3089 likes

#17

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

2967 likes

#18

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

2042 likes

#19

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12773 likes

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