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.
BRAM STOKERHe 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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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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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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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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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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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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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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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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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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