Frankenstein Quotes with Page Numbers

I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. – Chapter 3, Page 42

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. – Chapter 4, Page 49

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. – Chapter 6, Page 73

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. – Chapter 8, Page 95

Great God! Why did I not then expire! Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope and the purest creature of earth? – Chapter 9, Page 113

Our lives are strange; they are not always what they seem. – Chapter 12, Page 138

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. – Chapter 13, Page 151

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. – Chapter 14, Page 167

I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. – Chapter 15, Page 179

Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me, let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips. – Chapter 16, Page 189

Frankenstein Quotes with Page Numbers part 2

I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? – Chapter 17, Page 204

I am satisfied; miserable wretch! Do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked in speedy retribution? Dare you sport thus with life? – Chapter 18, Page 219

I saw them in the spring, they appeared the most lovely creatures I had ever beheld… Oh! What a wretched night had I passed! – Chapter 19, Page 236

I sailed…and did not again see my native land, which I… adored. My country, my beloved country — who but a native can tell the delight I took in again beholding thy streams, thy mountains, and, more than all, thy lovely lake? – Chapter 20, Page 244

What could not be expected in the country of eternal light? – Chapter 21, Page 252

I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. – Chapter 22, Page 270

I begin to feel the burden of this monstrous injustice. – Chapter 23, Page 278

Oh! Pity me! Spare me! Let me see happiness and peace… or I shall die. – Chapter 24, Page 284

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. – Preface, Page vii

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. – Chapter 2, Page 32

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy. – Chapter 5, Page 60

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Chapter 7, Page 88

I felt an opening in my heart for the torrent of love and sympathy which occupied it. – Chapter 10, Page 122

If I do not become a fellow-being with them, I will prove myself a wretch, and they will be right to load me with curses. – Chapter 11, Page 130

All my speculations and hopes are as nothing, and like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell. – Chapter 12, Page 141

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be — a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity. – Chapter 14, Page 168

I am a being utterly alone, and any companionship would be the most delightful thing in the world to me. – Chapter 15, Page 186

I am satisfied; miserable wretch! Do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked in speedy retribution? Dare you sport thus with life? – Chapter 18, Page 220

Yet such must be the impression I conveyed to you, since Heaven knows what sorrow and suffering have been expressed by your features. – Chapter 20, Page 245

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 resemblance. – Chapter 22, Page 266

One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought. – Chapter 24, Page 285

An appetite for knowledge is insatiable, and the more you learn, the more you want to know. – Chapter 3, Page 45

I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. – Chapter 4, Page 52

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. – Chapter 6, Page 74

The world to me was a secret which I desired to divine. – Chapter 7, Page 91

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light. – Chapter 9, Page 115

My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. – Chapter 10, Page 128

I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived. – Chapter 15, Page 187

I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. – Chapter 17, Page 205

Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me. – Chapter 18, Page 225

I was not surprised, therefore, when my master asked me if I would comply with a proposal of his, to be the companion of his travels. – Chapter 19, Page 237

I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse. – Chapter 21, Page 254

I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. – Chapter 22, Page 268

Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings, who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. – Chapter 23, Page 279

Man, you may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall, which must ravish from you your happiness forever. – Chapter 24, Page 293