Theme: mortality
Gulliver's Travels / Immortal Brotherhood
But my choice and constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood; among whom, I would elect a dozen from the most ancient, down to...
Frankenstein / Decay and Rationality
In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to ...
Frankenstein / Vengeance and Isolation
Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then...
The War of the Worlds / Storm Rising
From Ripley until I came through Pyrford I was in the valley of the Wey, and the red glare was hidden from me. As I ascended the little hill beyond Py...
Pride and Prejudice / Paternal Authority
my father’s active superintendence; and when, immediately before my father’s death, Mr.
Frankenstein / Mortality and Coincidence
I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing wit...
Dracula / Vampire Limitations
In fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular. “All we have to go upon are traditions and supersti...
Gulliver's Travels / Cultural Encounters
But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family. A particular description of the S...
Gulliver's Travels / Power and Perception
However, since the king was pleased to allow me access to his royal person, I was resolved, upon the very first occasion, to deliver my opinion to him...
Frankenstein / Inevitability of Fate
I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace. I understand your feeling,” continued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; “but ...
Dracula / Life and Death
Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a discovery. There, in one ...
Frankenstein / Unexpected Encounter
Their first supposition was that it was the corpse of some person who had been drowned and was thrown on shore by the waves, but on examination they f...
Frankenstein / Revenge and Survival
How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I d...
Dracula / Resting Place
Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises ove...
Dracula / Loss and Mourning
The wind rushed in through the broken window, and the door slammed to. They lifted off the body of my dear mother, and laid her, covered up with a she...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Journey
Can it give heat to a dead body?” “Not that I know of.” “Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable an...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Descent into Chaos
At first I thought that she had not recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out in a voice which I shall never forget, ‘Oh, my God...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Illness and Inquiry
“There is serious news this morning,” Lestrade observed. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of.” “An elderly man, I presume?” s...
Dracula / Science and Belief
Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? Then tell me--for I am...
Dracula / Confronting the Unknown
Do not fear any of us, we are all devoted to this cause, and to-day shall see the end. The time is coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Wreckage and Despair
The keel seemed to be in good order, and it had been wrecked at most some few hours. Three stumps of masts, broken off about two feet above the bridge...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Threshold of Escape
For an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fai...
Gulliver's Travels / Cultural Curiosities
I thought this account of the _struldbrugs_ might be some entertainment to the reader, because it seems to be a little out of the common way; at least...
The War of the Worlds / Urban Conflict
Going on towards Brompton, the streets were quiet again. Here I came once more upon the black powder in the streets and upon dead bodies. I saw altoge...
The War of the Worlds / Confronting Death
When it came, I saw that he was a sturdy man, cheaply but not shabbily dressed; his head was bent under his body, and he lay crumpled up close to the ...
Dracula / Dreadful Transformation
If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even fro...
Gulliver's Travels / Existence and Indifference
With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the _Yahoos_ draw hom...
Dracula / Desire and Duty
I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should begin to be enthrall; but I go on searching until, presently, I find ...
The War of the Worlds / Concealment and Urgency
My brother pushed the pony and chaise back into the hedge, and the man drove by and stopped at the turn of the way. It was a carriage, with a pole for...
Dracula / Consciousness and Death
It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, ...
Dracula / Cliffs and Shadows
Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones--“thruff...
Gulliver's Travels / Struldbrug Society
“If a _struldbrug_ happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of...