I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
BRAM STOKERIt was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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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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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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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.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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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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