AGONY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony.
2 But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.
3 While I still hung over her in the agony of despair, I happened to look up.
4 I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
5 Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
6 The inside of the cottage was dark, and I heard no motion; I cannot describe the agony of this suspense.
7 The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
8 The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.
9 When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
10 I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
11 It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.
12 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.
13 With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
14 It is true, he seldom came to see me, for although he ardently desired to relieve the sufferings of every human creature, he did not wish to be present at the agonies and miserable ravings of a murderer.
15 My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life.
16 Sometimes I entreated my attendants to assist me in the destruction of the fiend by whom I was tormented; and at others I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror.
17 The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
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