Frankenstein Quotes

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“I began to worry that

they’d go mad with fear, crazy with isolation.”
- Captain Walton, prologue

“I keep it cold on purpose -

it’s the only way to preserve my specimens… I don’t notice it anymore.”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“Well, my dear fellow,

we’re on the threshold of a new age.”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“the power that can do that is the power of

life and death. I’ll harness it. I’ll study it and master it and make it work for mankind.”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“The chap it was attached to was hanged,

he had no further use for it.”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“This is the greatest

discovery of the age! A wonderful piece of work!”
- Clerval, Act 1

“You’ve no idea how lonely it’s been…

I’ve been working at this for six years now. Six years!”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“Frankenstein, are you

mad or am I?”
- Clerval, Act 1

“To him, I mean. I can see

there’s plenty more important to you.”
- Elizabeth, Act 1

“How can I understand

a son who cares nothing for his father?”
- Elizabeth, Act 1

“Oh, my friend -

you don’t know how important it is…”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“I thought I was making something better than human! Something so precious and

beautiful that everyone would love it - and now look at you. Look at what I’ve done.”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“No! This isn’t what I wanted.

Oh, dear God, what have I done?”
- Frankenstein, Act 1

“in God’s name,

what have you done?”
- Clerval, Act 1

“I can judge a real face with my hands now,

but I can’t judge the expression of a picture.”
- Agathe, Act 2

“I will not

hurt anyone. I am their friend. Friend of everyone.”
- Monster, Act 2

“Men see me, they hurt me -

dogs - they shout, they throw stones. But I am good. I want to love them, not hurt, not kill.”
- Monster, Act 2

“Everywhere I go, they hate me.

Am I not good? I look bad.”
- Monster, Act 2

“You want me bad! All of you -

everyone - you all want me bad!”
- Monster, Act 2

“I shall be terror

and hatred and revenge - revenge!”
- Monster, Act 2

“You didn’t see him, Agathe -

you don’t know what he’s done already.”
- Felix, Act 2

“We should have understood him, Felix.

He was an outcast just like us.”
- Agathe, Act 2

“I am exactly what

you made me, Frankenstein.”
- Monster, Act 3

“You are the betrayer - you

created me, and you made sure I could never be happy.”
- Monster, Act 3

“I shall tell my brother,

Herr Frankenstein! He shall punish you, ugly monster!”
- William, Act 3

“How can I love, when

I am met with nothing but hatred and disgust?”
- Monster, Act 3

“am I to be the only

creature in the universe doomed to live alone?”
- Monster, Act 3

“And that’s humanity

for you, in a nutshell.”
- Monster, Act 4

“When a human sees a living thing,

his first impulse is to destroy it.”
- Monster, Act 4

“That’s the one occasion when I behaved like a human being.

As a result, it is the one thing I’m ashamed of.”
- Monster, Act 4

“All killers -

all destroyers - every one of you-“
- Monster, Act 4

“I hope I have no soul.

All I want now is oblivion.”
- Monster, epilogue