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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Quotes

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. - Mary Shelley (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Quotes)

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Source:(ed. 1831), Chapter 4, page 40
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Mary Shelley (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Quotes)
  • Book: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
  • Writer: Mary Shelley
  • Genre: Fiction, Horror
  • Published: 1818
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