Frankenstein Novel Quotes

...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.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.