Frankenstein Quotes

“Be men, or be more than men. be steady to your purposes, and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable, and cannot withstand you, if you say that it shall not.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“How ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves—such a friend ought to be—do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“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, Frankenstein

“If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them an hundred and an hundred fold ; for that one creature’s sake, I would make peace with the whole kind!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and onlyfriend; may Heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! Live, and be happy, and make others so.'

And on the morrow Justine died”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“How sweet is the affection of others to such a wretch as I am! It removes more than half my misfortune; and I feel as if I could die in peace, now that my innocence is acknowledged by you”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein