Frankenstein

"I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew."

"How inconsistent are my feelings!"

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

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit."

"What does it avail that I am surrounded by mountains of ice and that I will soon perish in the flames of a fiery death?"

"The storm appears to come on, and a multitude of causes insist upon me with irresistible force."

"I am satisfied; misery has come, and I leave it to you."

"You have denied me the right to love and to be loved."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"The creature will slay all those I love before taking my life."

"I feel as though I am on the brink of madness."

"How much has happened since I departed from Geneva!"

"I was struck with the greatest consternation and surprise."

"The greatest blessing I could have known would have been not to be born."

"My creator abhors me; what hope can I gather from my fellows?"

"In my youth I believed that the exercise of the sciences alone was sufficient to occupy my mind."

"The very stars seemed to mock my suffering."

"I shall devote myself to the destruction of my creator."

"I am forever barred from the joys of love and friendship."

"I learned that the pleasures of virtue are very different from those of vice."

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

"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"

"Man, I am not thine enemy; be thou mine."

"I am content to suffer alone, as long as another does not suffer by my hands."

"Every night brings forth new and frightful speculations."

"I have devoted myself to the study of things that most men ignore."

"What does it matter what form the tabernacle of my soul takes?"

"My father made a grave error in not heeding my warnings."