The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

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

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

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

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

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.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

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

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

I am malicious because I am miserable

I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe

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 tranquility.

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye

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

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.

One wondering thought pollutes the day

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

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

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

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.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Evil thenceforth became my good.

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

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave