FUTURE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mischief.
2 Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny.
3 I looked upon them as superior beings who would be the arbiters of my future destiny.
4 My children," she said, "my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
5 I enjoyed this scene, and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future.
6 I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.
7 She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects.
8 The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.
9 A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
10 You are younger; yet I do not suppose, possessed as you are of a competent fortune, that an early marriage would at all interfere with any future plans of honour and utility that you may have formed.
11 I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success.
12 Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.
13 My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.