There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKERSuddenly, 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
BRAM STOKER -
I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
BRAM STOKER -
We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKER -
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
BRAM STOKER -
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKER -
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKER -
I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKER -
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER -
And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
BRAM STOKER -
Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKER -
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKER -
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKER -
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 STOKER -
Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
BRAM STOKER -
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKER -
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
BRAM STOKER -
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
BRAM STOKER -
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
BRAM STOKER