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.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is life… and it shall be mine!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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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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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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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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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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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