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.
BRAM STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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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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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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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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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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