It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
BRAM STOKERWithin, 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
For 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.
BRAM STOKER -
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
BRAM STOKER -
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKER -
The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
BRAM STOKER -
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
BRAM STOKER -
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKER -
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER -
Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
BRAM STOKER -
We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER -
We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER -
A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
BRAM STOKER -
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKER -
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
BRAM STOKER -
He 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 STOKER -
The blood is the life!
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKER -
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKER -
I 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 STOKER -
Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
BRAM STOKER -
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKER -
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKER -
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
BRAM STOKER -
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
BRAM STOKER