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...

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

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

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...

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow...

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the...

The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

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

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

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

What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects… with whom I can live in the interchange of...