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.
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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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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The Dead travel fast.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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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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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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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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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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