Enter freely and of your own free will!
BRAM STOKERWe are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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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.
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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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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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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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.
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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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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
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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.
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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.
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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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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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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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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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A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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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.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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