We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
BRAM STOKERA brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
BRAM STOKER -
Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
BRAM STOKER -
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
BRAM STOKER -
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
Despair has its own calms.
BRAM STOKER -
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
BRAM STOKER -
A wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
BRAM STOKER -
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
BRAM STOKER -
She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
BRAM STOKER -
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
BRAM STOKER -
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKER -
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
BRAM STOKER