A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
BRAM STOKER -
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKER -
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKER -
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKER -
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
BRAM STOKER -
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKER -
The Dead travel fast.
BRAM STOKER -
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKER -
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKER -
Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
BRAM STOKER -
Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
BRAM STOKER -
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER -
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
BRAM STOKER -
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKER -
A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKER -
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
BRAM STOKER -
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKER -
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKER -
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!
BRAM STOKER -
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKER