Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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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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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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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