All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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
-
-
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.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them..
BRAM STOKER -
Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
BRAM STOKER -
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER -
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
BRAM STOKER -
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
BRAM STOKER -
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKER -
Take me away from all this Death.
BRAM STOKER -
This man belongs to me, I want him!
BRAM STOKER -
We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
BRAM STOKER -
Bleeding 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.
BRAM STOKER -
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
BRAM STOKER -
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER -
A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
BRAM STOKER -
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKER -
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
BRAM STOKER -
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
BRAM STOKER -
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
BRAM STOKER -
Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
BRAM STOKER -
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
BRAM STOKER