“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“And the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is man -- born… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poor William!" said he, "dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had seen him bright and joyous… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Death! mysterious, ill-visaged friend of weak humanity! Why alone of all mortals have you cast me from your sheltering fold? Oh, for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“She died calmly; and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those who dearest ties… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“What do you mean? What do you demand of your captain? Are you then so easily turned from your design? Did you… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“these are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death... with the induction of the joy… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
