And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
BRAM STOKERFor life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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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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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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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.
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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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She 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.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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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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