Mina > Mina's Quotes

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“To perceive is to suffer.”
― Aristotle

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text