Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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 want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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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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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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The blood is the life!
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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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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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