Frankenstein

A bundle of quotes from the timeless book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley..

They will probably make you experience a variety of different feelings..You choose the one(s) to focus your attention on, which also mostly depends on the present emotional state of you..This is the power of reading good works of literature..I mean when you are reading on a specific topic, you may get lost between the lines and get caught by a word, an expression or a sentence..I really love this feeling..

Besides, enjoy the photos I have taken lately while listening to a touchy piece of music by Coldplay..

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” 

“When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.” 

“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”  

 tearing the clouds..

“...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.” 

“ we couldn’t tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word “Farewell!”.

wish I was sailing away with you tonight..

“What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”
 

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye” 

foggy morning with the little sun up above in the sky..

"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 shall not."

“A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.”  

"I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."

with a bit more focus in the sky.. hoping for the good days..

“...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.” 
“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? 

But I was doomed to live;” 

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”  

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”  

“He meant to please and he tormented me..”

Shadows of My Mind

"If faces were different when lit from above and below - what was a face? What was anything?"

         - W.Golding, The Lord of The Flies 

Kadıköy/Istanbul

Things are out of control. Actions, behaviours, words, faces that are changing instantly lose their meaning. They continuously change. The change is spontaneous. When you deal from different perspectives, there exist different outcomes. There are always at least two different sides of things, namely events, actions, words etc.  If this is so, how one can believe in this or that one.

There is always one side staying in dark. There is always something one might not notice, which means being sure is not possible at all. One way or the other, the dark side remains.The unknown nature of it leads the dark to be frightening for people. Noone can be sure of things in darkness, whether it does bear good or evil.

"When the light begins to change 

I sometimes feel a little strange 

A little anxious when it's dark"

Oh Love!

Autumn in Istanbul 

"There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

         ...

If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.

         ...

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

         ... 

don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. " 

        - John Steinbeck 

Seagulls dancing in the sky / Kadıköy/ Istanbul

"In a Manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing"

a very beautiful song by Nouvelle Vague