Frankenstein Quotes
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. (Mary Shelley)
The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. (Mary Shelley)
The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. (Mary Shelley)
The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. (Mary Shelley)
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. (Mary Shelley)
My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. (Mary Shelley)
The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. (Mary Shelley)
Happy, happy earth! Fit habitation for gods! (Mary Shelley)
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. (Mary Shelley)
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. (Mary Shelley)
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. (Mary Shelley)
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel. (Mary Shelley)
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein Quotes part 2
I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear. (Mary Shelley)
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. (Mary Shelley)
The cup of life was poisoned forever. (Mary Shelley)
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. (Mary Shelley)
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel. (Mary Shelley)
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. (Mary Shelley)
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. (Mary Shelley)
I had created a being whose features were beautiful, but whose countenance expressed all the satanic passions that sometimes animates human beings. (Mary Shelley)
Light, feeling, and sense will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness. (Mary Shelley)
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. (Mary Shelley)
Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? (Mary Shelley)
The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. (Mary Shelley)
I am satisfied: miserable wretch! you have determined to live, and I am satisfied. (Mary Shelley)
Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? (Mary Shelley)
You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. (Mary Shelley)
Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart. (Mary Shelley)
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. (Mary Shelley)
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. (Mary Shelley)
Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. (Mary Shelley)
Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? (Mary Shelley)
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. (Mary Shelley)
You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. (Mary Shelley)
The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream. (Mary Shelley)
And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. (Mary Shelley)
For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments. (Mary Shelley)
I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy. (Mary Shelley)
Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. (Mary Shelley)
I am satisfied: miserable wretch! you have determined to live, and I am satisfied. (Mary Shelley)
What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin! (Mary Shelley)
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. (Mary Shelley)
Tell me why I lived? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? (Mary Shelley)
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. (Mary Shelley)
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. (Mary Shelley)
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. (Mary Shelley)
Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. (Mary Shelley)
Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? (Mary Shelley)
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear. (Mary Shelley)
