RUIN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin.
2 Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.
3 His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.
4 It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.
5 The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
6 We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
7 You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.
8 I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.
9 Then the appearance of death was distant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts; and I often sat for hours motionless and speechless, wishing for some mighty revolution that might bury me and my destroyer in its ruins.
10 All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
11 In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
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.