And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKERThough sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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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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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