Frankenstein Quotes

Letter 1

“Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path”

Letter 2

“I have no friend... I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me; whose eyes reply to mine”

Letter 3

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

Letter 4

“I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpant to sting you, as mine has been”

“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought.”

Chapter 1

“Much as they loved me, I was allowed to pursue my bent without restraint.”

Chapter 2

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

Chapter 3

“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve.”

“My departure was therefore fixed at an early date; but, before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred — an omen, as it were, of my future misery.”

Chapter 5

“His eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.”

Chapter 7

“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind… nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave.”

Chapter 8

“The appearance of Justine was calm. She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.”

Chapter 9

“I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness”

Chapter 10

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

Chapter 11

“I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing.”

Chapter 12

“What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not.”

“I was terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool!”

Chapter 13

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?”

Chapter 16

“With a loud scream I fired the straw… and it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.”

Chapter 19

“Being hardly more than a rock”

Chapter 20

“You are my creator, but I am your master – obey!”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.”

Chapter 23

“He seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.”

Chapter 24

“The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.”