She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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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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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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,
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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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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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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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.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
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The blood is the life!
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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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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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