Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
BRAM STOKERHow 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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