There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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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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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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For 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.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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Our 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.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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