Frankenstein Quotes

“Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours before; they had then been observed by Elizabeth. Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I am malicious because I am miserable”
― Mary Shelley , Frankenstein

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principal and another as all that can be conceived of noble and Godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honor that can befall a sensitive being; to be based and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more object than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. I cannot conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I details of advice and bloodshed, my wonder seized, and I turned away with discussed and loathing.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility." - Victor Frankenstein”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin." - Victor Frankenstein”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“For nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose." - Victor Frankenstein”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes the malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium: he believes, that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends, and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries, or excitements to his vengeance, that they are not creations of his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world. This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“My limbs trembled now, and my eyes swam with the memory; but then an irresistible, almost frantic impulse urged me onward; I seemed to lose all soul or sensation except for this one pursuit.”
― Mary Shelley, 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 benefiting the human mind”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I walked on the stony beach of the sea, to listen to the waves as they roared and dashed at my feet. It was a monotonous yet ever-changing scene.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“...for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix it's intellectual eye.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“«Cuando la falsedad puede adoptar la apariencia de verdad ¿quién puede estar seguro de alcanzar alguna felicidad?»

«Haz que sea feliz y seré virtuoso otra vez»”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but this is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings. Now my desires were complied with, and it would, indeed, have been folly to repent.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. I had ofte, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings. Now my desires were complied with, and it would, indeed, have been folly to repent.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“From you only could I hope for succour, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred. Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“My dear Victor, do not speak thus. Heavy misfortunes have befallen us; but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein