Frankenstein Vengeance Quotes & Sayings

The house praises the carpenter. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was rekindled within me. "Wretch!" I said, "it is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings; and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend! if he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance. It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is withdrawn from your power. — Mary Shelley

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. — Francis Bacon

I needed to be perfect.
Perfect was my only option. — Kiera Cass

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. — Stephen King

For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth! — Max Stirner

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids. — Pam Ferris

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated. — Janet Fitch

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. — Margaret Cho

Being constantly hungry is no life at all. — Emma Woolf

The time you spend with God is an everlasting investment in Paradise. — Felix Wantang

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us? — Kaya McLaren

Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life. — Goswami Kriyananda

I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you. — Christopher Titus

Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction, that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel. Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever. — Mary Shelley

Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. Alphonse Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. — Audrey Hepburn

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. — Peter Abrahams