I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKERA personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
BRAM STOKER -
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKER -
Enter freely and of your own free will!
BRAM STOKER -
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
BRAM STOKER -
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
BRAM STOKER -
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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 -
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
BRAM STOKER -
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
BRAM STOKER -
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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 -
Enter freely and of your own free will!
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER