I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :)
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.
The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the...
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Cole...
I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them?...
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shal...