I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.

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

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

Evil thenceforth became my good.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

One wondering thought pollutes the day

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.

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!

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.