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 STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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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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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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