Sleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKERHe may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
BRAM STOKERA house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERI stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
BRAM STOKERI am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERThe Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKERWe are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKERBut 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.
BRAM STOKERDespair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKERI want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
BRAM STOKERI suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKERAs yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKERThe inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKERBleeding 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.
BRAM STOKER