Frankenstein

"I am content with solitude and contemplation."

"The human form and countenance are exquisitely beautiful."

"I was tempted to wallow in despair and ascribe my misfortunes to unavoidable necessity."

"Philosophy is the roasted apple."

"How I have hated life while in the depths of those dark waters!"

"I am reading that accursed volume, the Cornelius Agrippa."

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, but it is impossible; I must pursue my own way."

"I felt as if I were committing some great crime and 'twas with difficulty that I at last laid down my pencil."

"A new species would bless me as its creator and source."

"Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree."

"I was seized by remorse and horror; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support."

"I have been blasted and ruined."

"Some invisible force seemed to have suddenly come over me."

"Nowhere can one get so comprehensive and so detailed a picture of human happiness."

"I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure; but this perception of the happy existence of others only enhanced my misery."

"My father was enraptured on finding that I had become a student of the occult arts."

"All was hope and joy."

"The beauty of the scene is almost sufficient to turn a philosophic misanthrope into a lover of mankind."

"Even broken in spirit as he is, no one could be more capable of devotion."

"Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of the human race whom these eyes will ever behold."

"I am not fit for society."

"How much more a man might become if he strove!"

"I had turned myself into the creator of a being destined to cause the death of all I loved."

"I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice."

"I am a wretch. I am a wretch!"

"I eagerly sought the company of my fellow beings."

"What glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame."

"Nature concenters in small spaces immortal effects."

"I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure."

"Despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were strong and irregular."