Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
BRAM STOKERBleeding 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
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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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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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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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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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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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