10 - Victor's Emotional State

Abraham Lincoln once said,

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

How do you think that statement is connected to Victor's state of mind at various points in the story?