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 STOKERAh, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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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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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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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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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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