Personification Quotes in Frankenstein

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

Oh! stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!

Some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry.

"I am not mad," I cried energetically; "the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations."

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul.

But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings and allowed me to be calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion.