A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
BRAM STOKERChasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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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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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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Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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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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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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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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Whether 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.
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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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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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The Dead travel fast.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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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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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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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.
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