Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We learn from failure, not from success!”

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2. “But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “I will not let you go into the unknown alone.”

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6. “Enter freely and of your own free will!”

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7. “The Dead travel fast.”

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8. “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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9. “There is a reason why all things are as they are.”

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10. “Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.”

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11. “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!”

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12. “There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.”

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13. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

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14. “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.”

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15. “Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.”

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18. “I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.”

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21. “The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”

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22. “You are nearest and dearest and all the world to me. Our souls are knit into one, for all life and all time. – Mina Harker.”

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23. “My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.”

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24. “I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”

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25. “Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.”

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26. “Truly there is no such thing as finality.”

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27. “Omne ignotum pro magnifico;.”

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28. “26 July. – I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time.”

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29. “It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”

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30. “Despair has its own calms.”

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31. “There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.”

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32. “Take me away from all this Death.”

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33. “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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34. “A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.”

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35. “There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!”

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38. “The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.”

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39. “But as I listened, I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, “Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”

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40. “I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. These companions,” and he laid his hand on some of the books, “have been good friends to me and for some years past, ever since I had the good idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure.”

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41. “Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.”

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42. “You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?”

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43. “Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens.”

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44. “It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.”

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45. “We men are all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm. His hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that “Kukri” ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!”

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46. “I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, no as we should know that they will be.”

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47. “Fe: Es una facultad que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.”

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48. “No sabe usted lo que es dudar de todo, incluso de uno mismo.”

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49. “I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal.”

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50. “Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines.”

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