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„Einsamkeit war mein einziger Trost – dunkle, tiefe, totengleiche Einsamkeit.“

„In Acht nehmen; denn ich bin furchtlos und darum mächtig.“

„Verfluchter Schöpfer! Warum hast du ein Monster gebildet, das so abscheulich ist, dass selbst du dich angewidert von mir abgewandt hast?“

„Ich erblickte das scheußliche Phantasma eines ausgestreckten Menschen, der dann, durch das Wirken einer mächtigen Maschine, Lebenszeichen von sich gab und sich mit einer unruhigen, halb lebendigen Bewegung rührte. Entsetzlich muss es sein; denn äußerst entsetzlich wäre die Wirkung jedes menschlichen Versuchs, den erstaunlichen Mechanismus des Schöpfers der Welt zu verspotten.“

„Zwar werde ich meine Gedanken zu Papier bringen, aber das ist ein unzulängliches Medium für die Mitteilung von Gefühlen.“

„Nichts ist für den menschlichen Geist so schmerzhaft wie eine große und plötzliche Veränderung.“

„Lerne aus meinen Fehlern, anstatt deine zu vermehren.“

„Vor einigen Jahren, als die Bilder, die diese Welt bietet, sich mir zum ersten Mal auftaten, als ich die beglückende Wärme des Sommers spürte und das Rascheln der Blätter und das Zwitschern der Vögel hörte und das alles für mich war, hätte ich mich zu Tode weinen sollen; nun ist es mein einziger Trost.“

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.”

“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

“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.”

“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”

“once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”

“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”

“It may… be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”

“learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.”

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.”

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”

“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.”

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

“if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

“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.”

“You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!”

“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”

“I am malicious because I am miserable”

“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”