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.
BRAM STOKERAh, 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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