Frankenstein

Book · 4 characters · 437 quotes · 1818

Quotes from Frankenstein

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"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames."
The Creature Death
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"How inconstant are the freaks of fortune! how changeable the feelings of human nature! but I am not so enslaved to my various faculty as to forget that I am in debt to you."
Victor Frankenstein
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"I desired the company of a man who could sympathise with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."
The Creature
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"Alas! he does not know the fatal secret that operation was the immediate cause of my being."
The Creature Truth
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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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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
The Creature Power
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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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"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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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
The Creature Life
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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."
Walton Wisdom
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"I am malicious because I am miserable."
The Creature Philosophy
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"I feel as if my time was nearly expired"
Victor Frankenstein
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"The fatigue of the journey and the depravity of the atmosphere sunk my spirits"
Victor Frankenstein
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"My life has been one long series of misfortunes"
Victor Frankenstein
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"Let him return as he will; but he cannot share in my tranquility"
Victor Frankenstein Peace
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"You are my creator; I am your creature"
The Creature Relationships
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"The beauty of the dream vanished"
Victor Frankenstein
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"I am satisfied, miserable wretch as I am; I have no more to fear"
Victor Frankenstein
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"I shall endeavor to record, as I have done, the whole course of my life"
Victor Frankenstein Truth
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"My imagination was too vivid"
Victor Frankenstein Imagination
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"I bitterly felt the want of a friend"
Victor Frankenstein Friendship
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"The death of my beloved was my first real sorrow"
Victor Frankenstein Death
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"I am surrounded by a cloud of despair"
Victor Frankenstein Hope
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"The human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union"
The Creature Relationships
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"Horror and fatigue deprived me of sleep"
Victor Frankenstein Fear
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"I desired the company of a man who could sympathize with me"
Victor Frankenstein Friendship
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"My present feelings are nothing to what I shall endure"
Victor Frankenstein Fear
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"I have endured incalculable fatigue and cold and hunger"
The Creature Perseverance
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"The mildness of the season, the beauty of the scenery, ought to have soothed my spirits"
Victor Frankenstein Nature
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"Revenge only deepens the wounds which misery inflicts"
Walton Wisdom