He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

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