Phillip Gessert > Phillip's Quotes

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“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 be greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“One wondering thought pollutes the day”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“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.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein