Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
BRAM STOKERBut 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The Dead travel fast.
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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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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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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.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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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. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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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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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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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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