Frankenstein

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

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

"My dear friend, broken in spirit as he is, no one could be more capable of devotion."

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

"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."

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

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

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine."

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

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

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

"How inconsistent are your feelings! but a moment ago you were devoted to the accomplishment of your labour."

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

"You have denied me the small comfort of believing that I am not utterly abhorred."

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"He is dead. When I shall die, my first thoughts will not be so much of my own as of thee."

"I have made a covenant with myself here."

"My ambition was to discover the magnetic pole."

"If you will permit me, I will relate my entire history."

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."

"The ice cracked beneath us with a tremendous and terrific sound."

"Have you gone mad, or are you about to commit suicide?"

"I prefer the company of a man of genius and cultivation."

"The beauty of the Polar region has surprised my expectations."

"Walton, in continuation, To Mrs. Saville."

"I thank you, but I cannot accept your kind offer."

"How I longed for the company of a man who could sympathize with me."

"You were hated; but your creatures love you."

"Yet when I reflect that you have probably destroyed that only evidence of your crime, I own that I am surprised."