A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKERThese 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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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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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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The blood is the life!
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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 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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