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.
BRAM STOKERNature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
BRAM STOKER -
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
BRAM STOKER -
Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER -
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER -
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKER -
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKER -
It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
BRAM STOKER -
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER -
Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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 -
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKER -
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
BRAM STOKER -
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
BRAM STOKER