I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. (查看原文)
I am malicious because I am miserable. If any being felt emotions towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold for that one creature's sake, I would make peace with the whole kind! (查看原文)
He pointed out to me the shifting colours of the landscape and the appearances of the sky. "This is what it is to live" he cried, "now I enjoyed existence!" (查看原文)
Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue, and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes. (查看原文)
Farewell, Walton! Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed." (查看原文)
When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure: when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. (查看原文)
Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who. pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. (查看原文)
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept do die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? (查看原文)