Frankenstein Quotes

“I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour and afterwards their love.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:words

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:pain change mind

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:pain feelings

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

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:world mystery

“I am malicious because I am miserable.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:evil misery

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:passion

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:man virtue

“A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:poverty

“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:age

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:desire dream

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