Frankenstein

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"

"I am content to suffer alone as I have suffered alone"

"I have crossed oceans of land in pursuit of my enemy"

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

"My creator was absent, but I felt as though he were present"

"I feel as if I were walking over a precipice towards unseen destruction"

"Sorrow only increased with knowledge"

"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly"

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition"

"I have lost everything and I have nothing to lose"

"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe"

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

"You have denied me the small compensation for my services"

"I am malicious because I am miserable"

"My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects."

"Believe nothing until you have yourself seen the proof."

"I am alone and will remain alone until the end of time."

"Yet I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me."

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

"I became numb, and the darkness and despair became complete."

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge."

"I lived for some time in this state of blissful ignorance."

"Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art!"

"I was more agile than they, but I did not possess their strength."

"The labours of man could not rival the works of nature."

"I shall climb the mountains of the moon."

"I am not composed of mist and cloud."

"But still I am unhappy and alone."

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

"Seek not happiness in tranquility alone; active virtue is required."