Mary Shelley Quotes

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. And I think every woman in her twenties has been there - where it feels like no matter what you are doing to fight through the thing that is holding you back, nothing can fill that void.

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.