Frankenstein Novel Quotes

• You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Frankenstein's Monster, Masters, Wedding Night

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Men, Determined

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Monsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Form

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Way, Steps

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dark, Light, Break Through

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.42

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• The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Feelings, Different, Human Nature

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inquiry, Becoming, Cowardice

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Angel, Adam, Fallen

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.120, Collector's Library

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• My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Eye, Light

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Would Be, World, Endeavor

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11

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• If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inspire, Causes, Frankenstein's Monster

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Beautiful, Men, Agony

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus”, p.115, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Believe, Likes, Imagine

  "Fictional character: The Creature". "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Misery, Made, Make Me Happy

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.207, DOSER Reads

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• How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Feelings, Excess, Strange

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Monsters, Miserable, Creation

  Frankenstein ch. 5 (1818)

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• Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Confidence, Powerful, Fear

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Devil, Satan, Admire

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao (2012). “The Annotated Frankenstein”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Frankenstein's Monster, Shelley

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Half, Weak, Aids

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Change, Mind, Painful

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Morning, Rain, Eye

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Life, Men, Identity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Motivation

  Frankenstein Letter 1 (1818)

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