Bram Stoker
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Dreams
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Experience
Despair has its own calms.
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
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.
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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.
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.
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.
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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.
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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.
We learn of great things by little experiences.Collection: Experience
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.Collection: Light
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weakerCollection: Memories
We learn from failure, not from success!Collection: Inspirational
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.Collection: Beautiful
I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.Collection: Believe
There is a reason why all things are as they are.Collection: Reason Why
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.Collection: Thinking
I will not let you go into the unknown alone.Collection: Letting You Go
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.Collection: I Hate You
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?Collection: Believe
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.Collection: Memories
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!Collection: Movie
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.Collection: Rain
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!Collection: Able
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.Collection: Faith
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.Collection: Strong
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.Collection: Sympathy
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.Collection: Thoughtful
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.Collection: Revenge
There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.Collection: Dream
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!Collection: Escaping
A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.Collection: Men
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.Collection: Feelings
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.Collection: Sweet
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.Collection: Men
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, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.Collection: Mean
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, 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.Collection: Country
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.Collection: Kings
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?Collection: Song
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?Collection: Love You
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Real