There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
BRAM STOKERWe learn from failure, not from success!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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!
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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