All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
BRAM STOKERIt is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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The blood is the life!
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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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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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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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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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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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