MISERIES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
2 I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
3 Surprise, horror, and misery were strongly expressed.
4 But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.
5 I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
6 I neither spoke nor looked at anyone, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me.
7 I, who have so disinterested an affection for you, may increase your miseries tenfold by being an obstacle to your wishes.
8 Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation and was then released from my prison.
9 I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
10 Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery but that he interests himself deeply in the projects of others.
11 For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever.
12 Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.
13 I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
14 Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
15 You come to us now to share a misery which nothing can alleviate; yet your presence will, I hope, revive our father, who seems sinking under his misfortune; and your persuasions will induce poor Elizabeth to cease her vain and tormenting self-accusations.
16 Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.
17 Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or excitements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations of his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.
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