I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKERIt is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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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.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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