Frankenstein

Book · 4 characters · 437 quotes · 1818

Quotes from Frankenstein

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"The weight of years and of sorrow bent my frame to dissolution."
The Creature Perseverance
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"My father did not create me for happiness, nor for virtue."
The Creature
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"I lived for years in the woods and mountains, seeking refuge in nature."
The Creature Adventure
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"I am not a monster; I am a man."
The Creature Strength
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"Yet even that enemy of mine own species wished me to be at peace with him before he died."
The Creature Peace
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"I am the only being that loves you; from your childhood I have cumulated every blessing upon you."
The Creature Family
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"I am condemned to discover and abhor the truth."
The Creature Truth
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"I feel sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they thrill through my whole frame."
The Creature Nature
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"Revenge alone is a satisfaction capable of extinguishing the anguish that gnaws at my heart."
The Creature Motivation
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"Every night a fresh hope, every morning a fresh despair."
The Creature Time
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"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."
The Creature Education
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"I am not wicked—I am miserable."
The Creature Truth
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"I shall be with you on your wedding night."
The Creature Fear
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"I was like Adam, but I was rather the fallen angel."
The Creature Philosophy
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"I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death."
The Creature Death
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"The desert is my only refuge and my only hope."
The Creature Hope
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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me."
The Creature Life
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"I desired love and fellowship, and I was spurned."
The Creature Relationships
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"I am a wretch. I am friendless and alone; but do not cast away the only refuge left to you."
The Creature Friendship
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"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe."
The Creature Power
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"The human senses are barriers barring us from true knowledge."
The Creature Knowledge
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"I am myself the only exception to the multifarious inhumanity of man."
The Creature Justice
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"My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor."
The Creature Solitude
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"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
The Creature Wisdom
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"I am not evil; I am miserable. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
The Creature Change
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"You have denied me my right to love and affection."
The Creature Love
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"I am malicious because I am miserable."
The Creature Happiness
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"Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellences of my mind"
The Creature Hope
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"I am chained in an eternal hell of my own making"
The Creature
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"The sight of the beloved one rouses all my fury"
The Creature