Frankenstein

"It is not pity that you feel; you did not compassionate my sufferings, therefore I now compassionate myself."

"I have you; I have love in me, and I will not be denied."

"I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary. During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; I find it blameless, but you, whom I accuse, I charge with being the author of the undoing of my peace."

"The beauty of the world has been much on my mind, now that, in my misery, I think of it."

"I was overcome by gloom and melancholy, and the more I read, the more the work kindled a far more passionate curiosity."

"For the first time in many months, I felt a sentiment of joy."

"I shall slake the thirst which burns within me; but I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly."

"I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some respects beneficial; but a circumstance has occurred which has rendered the last three months the most miserable of my life."

"No mortal could support the horrors of my situation."

"What is the extent of the advantages of a perfect knowledge of the structure of the human frame?"

"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be rendered all the dearer to one another."

"When I was unseen and unknown, every human being in the shape which I wore was repelled from me. I was shut out from intercourse with mankind."

"But I have one consolation: the hearts of those who love me will not be worn away by grief when I am gone."

"I have dedicated my creator, my own vampire, to destruction. He is following me even now, exulting in my destruction."

"Believe me, Walton, that there is something congenial to my heart in the man who can, by patient and active exertion, procure independent fortune and happiness."

"I am now going to reveal the secret upon which every thing the relation of which is to depend; and the success of my undertaking depends upon your absolute incredulity."

"The prospect of again seeing the lake that had been the scene of my earliest joys filled me with delight."

"My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading, and mechanically went through the contents of the school library."

"I am satisfied: misery has been my portion; let me now taste the fruits of my labours, and repose."

"The prospect before me is nothing but gloom; the world is a blank to me now."

"You have denied me the small sociality which is in the power of those of your kind to grant; therefore I claim of you a companion."

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor ever known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!"

"I have myself become the miserable and the abandoned, an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled upon."

"How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I shall again be virtuous."

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

"Some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must fulfill it, or surely I shall go mad."

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

"My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor; and they are made the bars of my prison."

"Let him feel the peace and innocence that I shall not enjoy."