Victor Frankenstein

"My life has been one long series of misfortunes"

"The fatigue of the journey and the depravity of the atmosphere sunk my spirits"

"I feel as if my time was nearly expired"

"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?"

"How inconstant are the freaks of fortune! how changeable the feelings of human nature! but I am not so enslaved to my various faculty as to forget that I am in debt to you."

"Let him feel the peace and innocence that I shall not enjoy."

"Some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must fulfill it, or surely I shall go mad."

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."

"I have myself become the miserable and the abandoned, an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled upon."

"The prospect before me is nothing but gloom; the world is a blank to me now."

"My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading, and mechanically went through the contents of the school library."

"The prospect of again seeing the lake that had been the scene of my earliest joys filled me with delight."

"I am now going to reveal the secret upon which every thing the relation of which is to depend; and the success of my undertaking depends upon your absolute incredulity."

"Believe me, Walton, that there is something congenial to my heart in the man who can, by patient and active exertion, procure independent fortune and happiness."

"I have dedicated my creator, my own vampire, to destruction. He is following me even now, exulting in my destruction."

"But I have one consolation: the hearts of those who love me will not be worn away by grief when I am gone."

"What is the extent of the advantages of a perfect knowledge of the structure of the human frame?"

"No mortal could support the horrors of my situation."

"For the first time in many months, I felt a sentiment of joy."

"I was overcome by gloom and melancholy, and the more I read, the more the work kindled a far more passionate curiosity."

"The beauty of the world has been much on my mind, now that, in my misery, I think of it."

"I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary. During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; I find it blameless, but you, whom I accuse, I charge with being the author of the undoing of my peace."

"Oh, that I could rouse your indignation and make you join with me in execrating the murderer of your son and of your innocent bride!"

"Justine was pious and mild; her eyes were heaven beneath a thick of lashes; and her countenance was ever brightened by a smile of ineffable benignity."

"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?"

"I have become callous to my own suffering."

"Learn from me how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge."

"A being formed in the very poetry of nature."

"Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension."

"I have crossed oceans of land to avoid you, yet you come."