But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.