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!
BRAM STOKEROur 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKER -
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER -
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
BRAM STOKER -
Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
BRAM STOKER -
Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKER -
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKER -
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKER -
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
BRAM STOKER -
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER -
Bleeding 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 -
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 STOKER -
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKER -
Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
BRAM STOKER