Quotes About Frankenstein's Monster

#1. Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zombies, though, fall outside all this. You can't argue with them. They just keep coming at you.

Clive Barker

#2. For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.

Robert B. Weide

#3. Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

Douglas MacArthur

#4. 'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.

Daniel H. Wilson

#5. You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.

Richard Roxburgh

#6. Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

Daniel H. Wilson

#7. Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

Howard Hodgkin

#8. According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

Kage Baker

#9. Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? - A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?

Karl Schroeder

#10. 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

#11. Short blonde hair, big rectangular forehead, like Frankenstein made a second monster, and that monster loved death metal and Twinkies.

Scott Kelly

#12. Chubs gave me a weary sigh. Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created the monster, not the monster itself.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition.

Laura Mullen

#14. He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

Gena Showalter

#15. 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.

Aussiescribbler

#16. I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

Mary Shelley

#17. Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.

Guy De Maupassant

#18. Geeks tend to think they can learn any language in a couple days and be immediately productive, but hiring companies don't always see it that way.

Dave Fecak

#19. She was a magnificent creature created in a science lab, the bride of Frankenstein. He, of course, comprehended that he was the monster. Freddy was Frankenstein, the creator.

Emmie White

#20. 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.

#21. I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

Erwin Schrodinger

#22. If I'm a monster, then you must be the creator of them all. You're my Dr. Frankenstein.

Karina Halle

#23. If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.

Harry J. Anslinger

#24. You're a Frankenstein!"
"Don't confuse the monster with the creator.

Stephen King

#25. Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

Edward Field

#26. 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

#27. It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Rebecca Wells

#28. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Mary Shelley

#29. Tony Stark/Iron Man, like Victor Frankenstein before him, has built the monster that may make his worst fear a reality. And now he and his friends are locked into the battle with the monster sworn to destroy them.

Chris Soth

#30. Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#31. You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.

Michael Hogan

#32. Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that he is.

Anonymous

#33. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

Guillermo Del Toro