I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKERFor now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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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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Within, 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.
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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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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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!
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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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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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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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