Frankenstein Quotes

“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal nature bade me weep no more.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

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

“... the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“If the study to
which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures
in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“She was no longer that happy
creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake, and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first
of these sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth, had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.
‘When I reflect, my dear cousin,‘ said she ‘on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as
they before appeared to me. Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice, that I read in books or heard from others as tales
of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein