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.
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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The blood is the life!
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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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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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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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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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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