Bram Stoker famous quotes

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
-- Bram Stoker

#Thinking #Mad #Sometimes

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
-- Bram Stoker

#Good Morning #Sweet #Pain

Despair has its own calms.
-- Bram Stoker

#Despair #Calm

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! 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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Dream #Sweet #Pain

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
-- Bram Stoker

#Men #Thoughtful #Good Man

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
-- Bram Stoker

#Memories #Stronger #Remember

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
-- Bram Stoker

#Revenge #Sides #Century

There is a reason why all things are as they are.
-- Bram Stoker

#Reason

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Eye #Men #Thinking

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
-- Bram Stoker

#Children #Halloween #Night

No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
-- Bram Stoker

#Girl #Death #Kings

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
-- Bram Stoker

#Letting You Go

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
-- Bram Stoker

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?
-- Bram Stoker

#Believe #Destiny #Men

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
-- Bram Stoker

#Dog #Night #White

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
-- Bram Stoker

#House #Welcome

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

#Believe #Heart #Men

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 Stoker

#Feelings #Brain #Diaries

Take me away from all this Death.
-- Bram Stoker

#Take Me Away

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
-- Bram Stoker

#Light #Darkness

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Teaching #Past #Ghouls

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
-- Bram Stoker

#Men #Age #May

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
-- Bram Stoker

#Love You #Past

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
-- Bram Stoker

#Thinking #Men #Coward

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
-- Bram Stoker

#Resilience #Principles #Matter

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!
-- Bram Stoker

#Fear #Thinking #Sea

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
-- Bram Stoker

#Thinking #Mad #Laughing

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

#I Hate You #Air #Sea

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
-- Bram Stoker

#Grateful #Comforting #Euthanasia

With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... Some of the...Oh my god…my god What have I done?
-- Bram Stoker

#Blood #Hands #Long

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.
-- Bram Stoker

#Eye #Animal #White

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
-- Bram Stoker

#Men #Faces #Horror

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
-- Bram Stoker

#Sympathy #Facts #Helping

Truly there is no such thing as finality.
-- Bram Stoker

#Finality

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Ideas #Mind #Growing

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
-- Bram Stoker

#May #Way #England

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Real #Fall #Men

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
-- Bram Stoker

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
-- Bram Stoker

#Anchors #Drifting

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
-- Bram Stoker

#Girl #Lasts #Poor

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!
-- Bram Stoker

#Night #Flames #Feet

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. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
-- Bram Stoker

#Kings #Laughter #Sorry

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
-- Bram Stoker

#Beautiful #Soul #World

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#May #Firsts #Please

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
-- Bram Stoker

#Selfish #Love Is #Light

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Beautiful #Fall #Snow

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

#Lying #Fall #Eye

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
-- Bram Stoker

#Roots #Evil #Selfishness

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
-- Bram Stoker

#Heart #Cutting #Want

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
-- Bram Stoker

#Strong #Together #Purpose

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Men #White #Feet

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Eye #Sight #Dust

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Dream #Fear #Sleep

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.
-- Bram Stoker

#Men #Light #Hands

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?
-- Bram Stoker

#Girl #Men #Unhappy

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
-- Bram Stoker

#Strong #Silence #Waiting

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
-- Bram Stoker

#Animal #Ideas #Looks

Sleep has no place it can call its own.
-- Bram Stoker

#Sleep

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
-- Bram Stoker

#Long #Would Be #Should

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
-- Bram Stoker

#Life Is