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 one, I will indulge the other.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the duality of powerful emotions within a person, highlighting both love and rage.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's quote explores the deep complexity of human emotions, suggesting that love can be vast and unparalleled while also revealing an underlying intensity of rage that, if not channeled positively, could become destructive. This internal struggle between love and rage highlights the importance of self-awareness and emotional balance in our lives.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech on emotional intelligence to emphasize the importance of acknowledging our feelings.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.
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