I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKERThen 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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