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 STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
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The Dead travel fast.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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