Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERBut this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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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.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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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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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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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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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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