It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKERI am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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 is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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.
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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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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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.
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