Victor Frankenstein Quotes

6 quotes from 6 authors

Victor Frankenstein’s restless drive to push creation’s limits appears in each line. His warning that knowledge can become a venomous serpent sits beside a brief comparison with Hamlet’s death‑obsessed mind, exposing hubris and dread. For more on tormented geniuses, check the Mad Scientist and Gothic Literature pages.

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“If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack. ~Victor Frankenstein”

Kenneth Oppel

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“I thank you, Walton," he said, "for your kind intentions towards to miserable a wretch; but when you speak of new ties…

Mary Shelly

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I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I…

Bruce Sterling

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We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…

Mary Shelley

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Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual…

Kenneth Branagh

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