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 STOKERIt 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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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.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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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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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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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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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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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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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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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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