20 Quotes About Frankenstein

Frankenstein tells us that love can be cruel, and it is. But it’s also the most powerful emotion on Earth. It is the source of all our greatest accomplishments and our worst failures. It moves mountains and creates brilliant works of art Read more

It is the ultimate motivator, the ultimate destroyer, the ultimate healer, the ultimate enigma. And it makes absolutely no sense. We can’t explain it, but we know that it exists.

So let’s celebrate this complex emotion by sharing quotes about love, friendship, and romance that explain its power in a simple way.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that...
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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation Unknown
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
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The truth was stranger than the official fiction. Dean Koontz
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it...
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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you,...
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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered? Dean Koontz
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...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner. Dean Koontz
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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 Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Oh! 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. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! The messages were the exact opposite of Vik and Viv's.Hmmmmm. Frankie turned to face the full-length mirror that was up against the yellow wardrobe. She opened her robe and examined her body. Fit, muscular, and exquisitely proportioned, she agreed with the magazines. So what if her skin was mint? Or her limbs were attached with seams? According to the magazines, which were - no offense! - way more in touch with the times than her parents were, she was suppose to love her body just the way it was. And she did! Therefor if the normies read magazines (which obviously they did, because they were in them), then they would love her, too. Natural was in. Besides she was Daddy's perfect little girl. And who didn't love perfect? . Lisi Harrison
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This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are. Neal Shusterman
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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 Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. Minda Webber
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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 Wollstonecraft Shelley
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We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. Mike Carey
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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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
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How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I'd sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him. Brock Clarke
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive. Dean Koontz
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I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley