Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERI have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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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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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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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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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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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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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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