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.
BRAM STOKERHow good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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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.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Then 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.
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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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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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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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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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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There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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