110 Quotes About Frankenstein

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?

Nuestras almas están formadas de muy extraña manera y nuestras vidas penden solo de leves lazos, cuya rotura puede arrojarlas a la prosperidad o a la ruina. Cuando miro hacia atrás me parece que ese cambio casi milagroso en mis inclinaciones y en mi voluntad fue obra directa de mi ángel guardián, el último esfuerzo del espíritu de conservación para alejarme de la tormenta que ya se cernía sobre mí, dispuesta a envolverme.

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.

When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has a way of removing one's inhibitions.

If we don’t like these monsters we’re creating then maybe we should consider the Frankensteins we have ourselves become.

I AM SEVENTEENAlready I am daughter to a ghost and mother to bones.

Como Adán, yo no parecía tener lazo alguno con los demás seres; pero su estado era muy distinto del mío en los demás aspectos. De las manos de Dios había salido una criatura perfecta, próspera y feliz, protegida por el especial cuidado de su Creador; se le había permitido conversar con seres de naturaleza superior y adquirir de ellos su saber; en cambio, yo era desdichado, estaba desamparado y solo. Muchas veces consideré a Satanás el símbolo más acorde a mi condición.

Remember , that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.