Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERListen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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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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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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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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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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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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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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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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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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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