And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKERIt is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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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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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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Ordinary 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.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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