Frankenstein Quotes

“I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in
following the aerial creations f the poets. The world was to me a secret, which I desired to
discover; to her it was a vacancy; which she sought to people with imaginations of her
own.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

“I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existence and events, from which I am now excluded.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

“the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes,”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

“but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known or felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

“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. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

“yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

“for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose,—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text