Frankenstein Novel Quotes:

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Frankenstein's Monster, Masters, Wedding Night, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Heart, Men, Determined, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Monsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Form, Frankenstein Novel

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

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

topic: Soul, Way, Steps, Frankenstein Novel, Treading

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

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

topic: Dark, Light, Break Through, Dark World, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Feelings, Different, Human Nature, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Becoming, Inquiry, Cowardice, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Angel, Adam, Fallen, Frankenstein Novel

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

topic: Halloween, Eye, Yellow, Frankenstein Novel, Burnt Out

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Would Be, World, Endeavor, Frankenstein Novel

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Inspire, Causes, Inspire Love, Frankenstein's Monster, Frankenstein Novel

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

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

topic: Beautiful, Men, Agony, Alluring, Frankenstein Novel

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

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

topic: Believe, Likes, Imagine, Shelley, Frankenstein's Monster

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

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

topic: Law, Intellectual, Curiosity, Frankenstein Novel, Laws Of Nature

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Misery, Made, Make Me Happy, Frankenstein Novel

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

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

topic: Feelings, Excess, Strange, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Monsters, Miserable, Creation, Frankenstein's Monster, Frankenstein Novel

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Powerful, New Years Resolution, Fearless, Essayists, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Devil, Satan, Admire, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Soul, Frankenstein's Monster, Shelley, Workmen, Marvellous

...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

topic: Half, Weak, Aids, Frankenstein Novel

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

topic: Change, Mind, Painful, Times Have Changed, Sudden Change

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

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

topic: Morning, Rain, Eye, Frankenstein Novel, Burnt Out

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

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

topic: Life, Men, Identity, Frankenstein Novel

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

source: Frankenstein Letter 1 (1818)

topic: Inspirational, Stay Strong, Motivation, Just Stay Strong, Mental Strength

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

topic: Heart, Hatred, Vices, Frankenstein Novel

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Art, Powerful, Eye, Kneeling, Frankenstein Novel