Quotes from Frankenstein

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.

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

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

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

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.

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

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.

He sprang from the cabin-window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

I am malicious because I am miserable.

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!

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

Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition.

We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up.

I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.

Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?

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

I expected this reception," said the dæmon.