Garrett Fort Quotes

I made him with these hands, and with these hands I'll destroy him.

You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.

Possibly there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth.

Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.

She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.

I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to—Well, we warned you.

Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond? You never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud, and what changes a darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things—what eternity is, for example—I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'

The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.

Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!

Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

Why, even when I was innocent her hatred of me hurt a good deal. Now that I'm guilty, her belief in me would hurt even more.