Quotes on Frankenstein Novel

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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.