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.
BRAM STOKERShe has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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Despair has its own calms.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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