Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.”

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452. “All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world. You tell not your madmen what you do nor why you do it. You tell them not what you think. So you shall keep knowledge in its place, where it may rest, where it may gather its kind around it and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what we know here, and here.” He touched me on the heart and on the forehead, and then touched himself the same way.”

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453. “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”

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454. “How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me. And tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me. Thank God! Goodnight Arthur. DR.”

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455. “Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.”

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456. “I must not deceive myself; it was no dream; but all a grim reality.”

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457. “He is there. I know the secret now. The sea will save me from Him, and it is all that is left.”

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458. “To look at you and to feel nothing is the closure that I desire.”

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459. “Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.”

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460. “What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.”

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461. “Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.”

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462. “The rats were all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only open an inch wide-just as the Moon herself has often come in through the tiniest crack, and has stood before me in all her size and splendour.”

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463. “She asks Mimi and me to tea this afternoon at Diana’s Grove, and hopes that you also will favour her.”

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464. “Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow.”

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465. “The secret is here, and I do not want to know it.”

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466. “The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and.”

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467. “But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart. 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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468. “I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

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469. “Even in the dark there was a light of some kind, as there ever is over snow; and it seemed as though the snow-flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of women with trailing garments.”

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470. “Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.”

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471. “I shall hide this paper in my breast, where they shall find it when they come to lay me out.”

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472. “As I raised the blind, the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the professor’s low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart.”

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473. “I picked out one who has afforded me a study of interest. He is so quaint in his ideas, and so unlike the normal lunatic, that I have determined to understand him as well as I can. Today I seemed to get nearer than ever before to the heart of his mystery.”

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474. “I never knew either father or mother, so that the dear old man’s death is a real blow for me.”

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475. “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.”

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476. “He swear much, and he red face and loud of voice, but he good fellow all the same;.”

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477. “Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.”

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478. “We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful, we got, as some kind of reward for our labours, some real cheerfulness amongst us.”

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479. “After a time, it did not seem a short time either, for the draining away of one’s blood, no matter how willingly it be given, is a terrible feeling, Van Helsing held up a warning finger. “Do not stir,” he said. “But I fear that with growing strength she may wake, and that would make danger, oh, so much danger. But I shall precaution take. I shall give hypodermic injection of morphia.” He proceeded then, swiftly.”

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480. “Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies, therefore I like it.” And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do not argue.”

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481. “The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.”

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482. “After all, he was only a man, with a man’s dislike of difficult or awkward situations.”

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483. “When I have received your letter, I am already coming to you.”

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484. “Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing. I was dazed and stupid with pain and terror and weakness, but the sound of the nightingale seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort me.”

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485. “All this weakness comes to me in sleep; until I dread the very thought.”

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486. “He has evidently some deep probllem in his mind, for he keeps a little notebook in which he is always jotting down something.”

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487. “All chambers are alike to the doctor;.”

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488. “Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him. And yet that man we saw yesterday! He.”

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489. “Had it but been for myself the choice had been easy, the maw of the wolf were better to rest in than the grave of the Vampire!”

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490. “The poor dear was evidently terrified at something-very greatly terrified; I do believe that if he had not had me to lean on and support him, he would have sunk down.”

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491. “Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.”

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492. “Si alguna vez un rostro ha podido expresar la muerte, si una mirada es capaz de matar, aquel rostro, aquella mirada, se hallaban ante nosotros.”

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493. “You think then that those so small holes in the children’s throats were made by the same that made the hole in Miss Lucy?” “I suppose so.” He stood up and said solemnly: – “Then you are wrong. Oh, would it were so! but alas! no. It is worse, far, far worse.” “In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?” I cried. He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke: – “They were made by Miss Lucy!”

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494. “I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of life amongst the insane is beginning to tell upon my own brain.”

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495. “All our work is undone; we must begin again. There is no young Arthur here now; I have to call on your yourself this time, friend John.”

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496. “To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.”

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497. “We Szekelys2 have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races3.”

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498. “How was it that all the people at Bistritz and on the coach had some terrible fear for me? What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash? Bless.”

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499. “Friend John, to you with so much of experience already – and you, too, dear Madam Mina, that are young – here is a lesson: do not fear ever to think.”

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500. “I know now the span of my life. God help me!”

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