1. “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.” ― Frankenstein
2. “The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.” ― Frankenstein
3. “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” ― Frankenstein
4. “He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.” ― Frankenstein
5. “A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.” ― Frankenstein
6. “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” ― Frankenstein
7. “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.” ― Frankenstein
8. “My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.” ― Frankenstein
9. “I am malicious because I am miserable.” ― Frankenstein
10. “The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.” ― Frankenstein
11. “How ignorant art though in thy pride of wisdom!” – Frankenstein
12. “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” – Frankenstein
13. “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” ― Frankenstein
14. “Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.” ― Frankenstein
15. “When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” – Frankenstein
16. “How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!” – Frankenstein
17. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Frankenstein
18. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― Frankenstein
19. “I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.” ― Frankenstein
20. “A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.” ― Frankenstein
21. “If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.” ― Frankenstein
22. “Hateful day when I received life! Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” – Frankenstein
23. “Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.” ― Frankenstein
24. “We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.” ― Frankenstein
25. “Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” ― Frankenstein
26. “The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.” ― Frankenstein
27. “With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.” ― Frankenstein
28. “I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.” ― Frankenstein
29. “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye.” ― Frankenstein
30. “Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.” ― Frankenstein
31. “I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.” ― Frankenstein
