Bram Stoker Quotes
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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.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
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I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.