“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
“Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?”
“I had never yet seen a being resembling me, or who claimed any intercourse with me. What was I?”
“No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses.”
“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”
“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
“I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.”
“Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
“No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses.”
“I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.
“if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
“I am malicious because I am miserable”
“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”
“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”
“A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.”
“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.”
“What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”
“We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.”
“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.”
Justine shook her head mournfully. "I do not fear to die," she said; "that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
“Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”
“Evil thenceforth became my good.”
“Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”
“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
“Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!”
“Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?”
“I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.”
“All men hate the wretched.”
“One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.”
“My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.”
“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.”
“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.”
“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.”
“You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!”
"Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?"
"After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye."
"The natural phenomena that take place every day before our eyes did not escape my examinations."
"It's alive!