She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
BRAM STOKERBecause if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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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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The Dead travel fast.
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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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