Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERThere are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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 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.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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The blood is the life!
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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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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