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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
2 I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
3 The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
4 My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.
5 No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.
6 These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.
7 When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.
8 I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
9 She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety.
10 These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
11 I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
12 But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
13 Such were my reflections during the first two or three days of my residence at Ingolstadt, which were chiefly spent in becoming acquainted with the localities and the principal residents in my new abode.
14 As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.
15 My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory.
16 At first I perceived that he tried to suppress his emotion; he placed his hands before his eyes, and my voice quivered and failed me as I beheld tears trickle fast from between his fingers; a groan burst from his heaving breast.
17 I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man.
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