Victor Frankenstein

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example."

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind."

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

"Increase of knowledge only increased the increase of sorrow."

"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."

"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life!"

"I have myself become the greatest and most terrible of all mummies."

"You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did."

"Despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were strong and irregular."

"I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure."

"Nature concenters in small spaces immortal effects."

"What glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame."

"I am a wretch. I am a wretch!"

"I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice."

"I had turned myself into the creator of a being destined to cause the death of all I loved."

"The beauty of the scene is almost sufficient to turn a philosophic misanthrope into a lover of mankind."

"All was hope and joy."

"My father was enraptured on finding that I had become a student of the occult arts."

"I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure; but this perception of the happy existence of others only enhanced my misery."

"Nowhere can one get so comprehensive and so detailed a picture of human happiness."

"Some invisible force seemed to have suddenly come over me."

"I have been blasted and ruined."

"I was seized by remorse and horror; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support."

"Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree."

"A new species would bless me as its creator and source."

"I felt as if I were committing some great crime and 'twas with difficulty that I at last laid down my pencil."

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, but it is impossible; I must pursue my own way."

"I am reading that accursed volume, the Cornelius Agrippa."

"How I have hated life while in the depths of those dark waters!"

"Philosophy is the roasted apple."