It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
BRAM STOKERWhether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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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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A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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The blood is the life!
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The blood is life… and it shall be mine!
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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It 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.
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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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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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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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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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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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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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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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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night,
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