Quotes from Frankenstein | Mary Shelley

Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:

• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
• Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
• Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
• When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
• With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
• What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
• Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye.”
• To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death