How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!
— Mary Shelley Modern

Frankenstein

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From her novel 'The Last Man'.

Date / Period

1826

Category

Shocking

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/sorrow?page=2

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