Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKERNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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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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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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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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Despair has its own calms.
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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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