Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
BRAM STOKEREven 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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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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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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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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