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!
BRAM STOKERI want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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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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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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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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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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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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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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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