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 STOKERI sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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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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