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.
BRAM STOKERSouls and memories can do strange things during trance.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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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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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in 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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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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