You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
BRAM STOKERParis is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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