Bram Stoker Quotes

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.

. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.