Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERIt is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
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Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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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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