Bram Stoker Quotes
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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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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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 suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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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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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
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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.
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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.