Bram Stoker Quotes

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.

"I promise." and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.

Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic — for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.

his very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down.

I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.

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 !

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

La naturaleza trabaja sobre unas bases de esperanza tales que creemos, aun contra nuestras propias creencias, que las cosas saldrán como deben salir, no como sabemos que saldrán.

When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.

At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he had yet gone, and during his absence, the horses began to tremble worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright. I could not see any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make!

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.