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?
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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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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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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The blood is the life!
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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The blood is the life!
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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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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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 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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