35 Poetic Quotes From Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein to Use as Photo Captions
Visionary director Guillermo Del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein arrived on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 7, and we haven't stopped thinking about it since.
The beautifully haunting new rendition of Mary Shelley's 1818 classic is equal parts gorgeous and gory, telling the tale of scientist Victor Frankenstein's single-minded quest to beat death. Though Victor succeeds, he's dissatisfied with his creation, shedding all responsibility for this new life and rejecting a powerful but naive being who craves only love and companionship. It's Victor—not the creature—who leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake. The film is also full of quotes that are bound to rattle around in your head, and we've shared some of our favorites below.
For claiming ownership of your creation:
"I did. I did. I made him."
-Victor Frankenstein
For when truth and fact are not one in the same:
"Some of what I will tell you is fact. Some is not, but it is all true."
-Victor Frankenstein
For trying to convince someone to eat the food you made:
"Go on. It's nutritious."
-Leopold Frankenstein
For the doting pet you never wish to leave your side:
"Guardian angel. Sweet companion. Stand by my side and do not leave me."
-Victor Frankenstein
For knowing that who you truly are comes from your thoughts, not your body:
"There is no spiritual content in tissue, and no emotion in a muscle."
-Leopold Frankenstein
For the loss that makes your world a darker place:
"A part of the universe had been hollowed out and the firmament was now permanently dark."
-Victor Frankenstein
For when you're complete opposites:
"He was the breeze, I was the storm cloud. He was all laughter, I was all frowns."
-Victor Frankenstein
For contemplating the nature of life:
"No one can conquer death."
-Leopold Frankenstein
For understanding precisely what you need to achieve:
"The vision was so clear. Clearer than anything I'd ever seen in my waking hours or dreams."
-Victor Frankenstein
For aspiring to pull off an impossible feat:
"But if we are to behave as immodestly as gods, we must, at the very least, deliver miracles."
-Victor Frankenstein
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For embracing your rebellious side:
"Teach them defiance rather than obedience."
-Victor Frankenstein
(Frankenstein via Netflix)
For when someone's wild excitement is holding them back:
"But you are like a child, so excited, clutching your new pet so tightly that you're strangling it."
-Heinrich Harlander
For wondering whether the quest will be fulfilled:
"Can you contain your fire, Prometheus? Or are you going to burn your hands before delivering it?"
-Heinrich Harlander
For knowing that actions speak louder than words:
"Ideas are not worthwhile by themselves, I don't believe."
-Elizabeth Harlander
For when you've been misled:
"How often a man believes he's met an angel or a devil, only to find it is all an illusion."
-Victor Frankenstein
For only getting in your own way:
"The game of chess we play, we play only against ourselves."
-Victor Frankenstein
For when someone underestimates you:
"Insulting, but unsurprising."
-Elizabeth Harlander
For taking an interest in the tiny, fascinating elements of nature:
"My interest in science leans towards the smallest things. Moving with nature, perhaps the rhythms of God. I've always searched for something more pure, marvelous."
-Elizabeth Harlander
For appreciating the power of free will:
"Choice is the seat of the soul."
-Elizabeth Harlander
For feeling overwhelmed with choice:
"Abundance can be disorienting unless one hones one's aim."
-Heinrich Harlander
For basking in the life-giving glow of the sun:
"Sunlight. The sun is… The sun is life."
-Victor Frankenstein
For reaching your goal and not knowing what to do next:
"Having reached the edge of the earth, there was no horizon left."
-Victor Frankenstein
For struggling with insomnia:
"I have not slept. Not a winky-dinky-doo of sleep for me."
-Victor Frankenstein
For receiving a thoughtful gift from someone pure of heart:
"A leaf? For me? Thank you."
-Elizabeth Harlander
(Frankenstein via Netflix)
For when someone is clueless in matters of love:
"Your heart? Of all the human anatomy, that is the organ furthest from your understanding."
-Elizabeth Harlander
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For sensing that something is amiss:
"I have the most terrible feeling."
-Elizabeth Harlander
For remembering a simpler time:
"For a moment, a brief, brief moment, the world and I were at peace."
-The Creature
For recognizing the inherent cruelty of existence:
"An idea, a feeling became clear to me. The hunter did not hate the wolf. The wolf did not hate the sheep. But violence felt inevitable between them. Perhaps, I thought, this was the way of the world. It would hunt you and kill you just for being who you are."
-The Creature
For entering a new way of existence:
"With a single step, I entered a different world. One I had only seen from afar."
-The Creature
(Frankenstein via Netflix)
For opening yourself up to new friendships:
"Stay with me. Share my food and fire. I would be delighted to share what little I have with you and would be greatly helped by your companionship."
-The Blind Man
For the first snowfall of winter:
"Have you never seen the snow, my dear friend? It makes the world clean and new."
-The Blind Man
For moving forward rather than dwelling on the past:
"Forgive. Forget. The true measure of wisdom."
-The Blind Man
For finding companionship in a kindred spirit:
"Yes. We can be monsters together."
-The Creature
(Frankenstein via Netflix)
For accepting parts of yourself that others cannot:
"I am obscene to you, but to myself I simply am."
-The Creature
For when love is a simple matter of being seen:
"To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love."
-Elizabeth Harlander
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