It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKERWe learn of great things by little experiences.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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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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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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The Dead travel fast.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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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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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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