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.
BRAM STOKERChasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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I 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!
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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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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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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