The Creature

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"You have denied me the small compensations for existence which are allowed to the meanest of created beings."

"I am not evil; I am miserable."

"My virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal."

"The desert is my dwelling and the only dwelling I can claim."

"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me."

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

"I am satisfied, miserable wretch! You have determined it then."

"My creator, make me happy and I shall again be virtuous."

"But I am not even of the same nature as man."

"The human senses are barriers to our union."

"I shall go to the vast wilds of South America."

"You are my creator, but I am your master—obey!"

"What does it avail that I am virtuous if I am not happy?"

"It is true we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world."

"From your later writings I perceive the greatest exertions of single men."

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."

"But still I am unhappy and alone."

"I am not composed of mist and cloud."

"I shall climb the mountains of the moon."

"I was more agile than they, but I did not possess their strength."

"I lived for some time in this state of blissful ignorance."

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

"Yet I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me."

"I am alone and will remain alone until the end of time."

"My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects."

"I am malicious because I am miserable"

"You have denied me the small compensation for my services"

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend"

"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly"