Frankenstein

Book · 4 characters · 437 quotes · 1818

Quotes from Frankenstein

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"I shall be with you on your wedding night."
The Creature
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"Science has taught me to doubt my senses, and yet to embrace the absurd."
Victor Frankenstein Science
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"You have denied me the small comforts of life, but shall I not have my revenge?"
The Creature Justice
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"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind."
Victor Frankenstein Peace
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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
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"I am not evil; I am miserable."
The Creature Philosophy
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"The companionship of man is necessary to my happiness."
The Creature Friendship
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"Hereafter I trust to myself and to my own resources alone."
Victor Frankenstein
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"My reign is not yet over, and you shall live to see that I shall accomplish my vengeance."
The Creature
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"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
The Creature
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"Revenge only deepens the wounds of both the pursuer and the pursued."
Victor Frankenstein Wisdom
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"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul."
Victor Frankenstein
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"I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice."
Victor Frankenstein Fear
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"No word, no expression could convey the kind of relation in which she stood to me."
Victor Frankenstein Relationships
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"I have myself been blasted and broken by some unaccountable freak of destiny, whom I have not the power to defeat."
Victor Frankenstein
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"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."
Victor Frankenstein Knowledge
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"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"
Victor Frankenstein Life
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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
Victor Frankenstein Life
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"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me."
The Creature
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"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent that sting you, as mine have been."
Victor Frankenstein Wisdom
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"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear."
The Creature
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
The Creature Power
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"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?"
Victor Frankenstein
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"I am malicious because I am miserable."
The Creature Philosophy
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"I shall ascend the funeral pyre which shall consume and light up my cruel grave"
The Creature Death
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"I shall glut the maw of death until it be satiated with blood"
The Creature
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"How can I help being cynic when I see the world as it is"
Victor Frankenstein Truth
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"You are my creator but I am your master obey"
The Creature Power
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"I am alone and miserable only I then felt sensations of ease and pleasure"
The Creature Solitude
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"Yet when I reflect that you have refused my just demand I rage like a chained bear"
The Creature