No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
BRAM STOKEROrdinary 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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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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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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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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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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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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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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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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