Frankenstein Quotes

"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of men?"

Walton, on determination

"The very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph."

Walton, on the stars and his triumph

"Unexplored regions, to the land of mist and snow."

Walton, on the icy north

"Deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge."

Victor's obsession

"The secrets of heaven and earth that I desire to learn."

What Victor desires to learn

"Penetrate into the recesses of nature"

Where Victor wishes to penetrate (knowledge)

"But I am a blasted tree - the bolt has entered my soul."

Victor on his own corruption

"The blue lake, and snow-clad mountains - they never change… our contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable laws."

Victor on the immutability of nature

"Enter the house of mourning, my friend …not with hatred for your enemies." (Mr Frankenstein to Victor)

Mr Frankenstein to Victor on mourning and revenge

"…some softened feelings stole into my heart…but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope."

Victor on hoping to marry Elizabeth after the Creature's threat

"Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope, and the purest creature of earth?"

Victor on Elizabeth's death

"He threatened and menaced until I almost began to think I was the monster that he said I was."

Justine on her "confession"

"…there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity."

Victor on Justine before her trial

"I commit my cause to the justice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope."

Justine committing herself to Justice

"Misery made me a fiend."

The Creature on his misery and monstrousness

"Shall each man… find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have its mate, and I shall be alone?"

The Creature on being alone in existence

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed."

The Creature on being Adam

"You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!"

Creature, to Victor - the eternal justice on man

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind…"

The Creature thinking about knowledge early on

"I shall be with you on your wedding night."

The creature's threat to Victor and Elizabeth

"Borne away by the waves and lost in the darkness and distance."

what happens to the creature at the end of the book

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

the creature defends life

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

why the creature is malicious

"Even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."

the creature on being Satan and alone

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"Till death she was to be mine only."

Victor, about meeting Elizabeth pt 2

"A being heaven-sent"

Victor describing Elizabeth

"Elizabeth alone had the power to draw me from these fits."

The power of Elizabeth in bringing Victor back

"her countenance expressed affection even in death"

Caroline in death

"Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connexion? Why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel?"

Victor on his grief for caroline

"In Clerval I saw the image of my former self"

Victor, about Clerval and their differences

"They are the most excellent creatures in the world; but unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me."

Creature on the De Lacey's prejudice

"Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair."

Mr De Lacey to the Creature on hoping for his friends

"You raise me from the dust by this kindness."

The Creature on the De Lacey's kindness

Frankenstein V1 Chapter 4

Victor isolates himself from his family and dedicates himself entirely to his studies

Frankenstein V1 Chapter 5

Victor succeeds in creating the monster but is horrified at what he's done and becomes incapacitated with illness

Frankenstein V1 Chapter 8

Justine is tried and sentenced to death

Frankenstein V2 Chapters 2-8

The Creature recounts his life story

Frankenstein V3 Chapter 3

Victor destroys the female creature

Frankenstein V3 Chapter 6

Elizabeth is killed by the Creature; Mr Frankenstein dies of grief