Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

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.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.