Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they...

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his...

I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me...

This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case.

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

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages. Many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience. I...

The beginning is always today.

What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it...

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.

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

Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

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

Analiza la cuestión, ,cómo pretendes que sea un ser agradable si soy un monstruo, o que sea generoso con los demás, si se muestran implacables conmigo? Si tú me arrojases a uno de esos barrancos...