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.
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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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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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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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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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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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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.
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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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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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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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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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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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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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