Top 36 Frankenstein Shelley Quotes
#1. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein
more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
Mary Shelley
#2. I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
Mary Shelley
#3. Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
Mary Shelley
#4. It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being ...
Mary Shelley
#5. The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
Mary Shelley
#6. Scar tissue does more than flaunt its strength by chronicling the assaults it has withstood. Scar tissue is new growth. And it is tougher than skin innocent of the blade.
Shelley Jackson
#7. 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.
Mary Shelley
#8. The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
Mary Shelley
#9. I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.
Mary Shelley
#10. Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. -
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.
Mary Shelley
#12. He pushed a finger through the surface of the water to trace the outline of her mouth. Ethereal bits of flesh floated loosely about his knuckle and nail. Then, calmly, he pulled her body up out of the tub and into his arms. He placed his lips on hers, now as cold and dead as his own.
P.J. Parker
#13. The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was, of course, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She didn't call it an "atomic bomb." She called it "the monster of Frankenstein.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#14. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly: That's not so ignorant after all. There are two monsters in my story, not one And one of them, the scientist, is indeed named Frankenstein.
Kurt Vonnegut
#15. Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.
William Gibson
#16. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie ...
Mary Shelley
#17. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Shelley
#18. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
Mary Shelley
#19. I have created something and let it loose upon the world. Whether it was my right to do so or not, I cannot say. At times I am filled with love for my creation. At others I am filled with regret and horror. But it is done. It has been created.
P.J. Parker
#20. Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
Mary Shelley
#21. This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case.
Mary Shelley
#22. Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.
Mary Shelley
#23. 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.
Mary Shelley
#24. I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
Mary Shelley
#25. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
Mary Shelley
#26. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley
#27. Perhaps it is belief more than truth that helps us survive.
P.J. Parker
#28. Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.
Peter Murphy
#29. 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.
Mary Shelley
#30. Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.
Mary Shelley
#31. Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?
Mary Shelley
#32. The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.
P.J. Parker
#33. Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, resurrection by human power rather than divine spirit always produces a monstrosity. If
Robert P. Jones
#35. I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
Mary Shelley
#36. 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
Mary Shelley
