Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “This morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday... I feel strangely sad and low-spirited to-day. I suppose it is the reaction from the terrible excitement... I didn’t feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring anxiety... it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.”

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

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454. “For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.”

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455. “I wish I could put down all that he said exactly as he said it, for to me it was most fascinating. It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country.”

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456. “Jack, if you may tell me without betraying confidence. Arthur was the first; is that not so?”

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457. “He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse.”

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458. “Some of the “New Women” writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.”

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459. “I have had a great shock, and when I try to think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I do not know if it was all real or the dreaming of a madman.”

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460. “This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. I love her a thousand times more for her sweet pity of last night, a pity that made my own hate of the monster seem despicable.”

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461. “We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us all up somewhat. It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to hungry people – for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast – or the sense of companionship may have helped us; but anyhow we were all less miserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope.”

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462. “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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463. “Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit.” “Perhaps.”

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

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466. “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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467. “He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them, and I should think must have been in his time a most dictatorial person. He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can’t out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.”

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468. “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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469. “Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker.”

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470. “All at once we heard the crow of a cock coming up with preternatural shrillness through the clear morning air;.”

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471. “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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472. “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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473. “I caught the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlight sky, except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. 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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474. “I go no further than to say that she might be UnDead.”

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475. “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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476. “Gott in Himmel!”

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477. “Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A promise made to me, but made holily in God’s hearing, and not to be broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once.”

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478. “I want you to bear something in mind through all this dreadful time. I know that you must fight – that you must destroy... but it is not a work of hate.”

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479. “I pity your poor bleeding heart.”

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480. “Do not stir an instant. It is enough. You attend to him; I will look to her.”

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481. “He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain.”

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482. “The houses of the old town – the side away from us – are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg.”

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483. “Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.”

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

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486. “My revenge has just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine...”

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487. “At least God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the precipice is steep and high. At its foot a man may sleep – as a man.”

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488. “It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very peculiar man!”

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489. “He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibriate it.”

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490. “There was something so strange in all this, something so weird and impossible to imagine, that there grew on me a sense of my being in some way the sport of opposite forces – the mere vague idea of which seemed in a way to paralyse me. I was certainly under some form of mysterious protection. From a distant country had come, in the very nick of time, a message that took me out of the danger of the snow-sleep and the jaws of the wolf.”

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491. “Don’t you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?”

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492. “How can he” – and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of – “know anything of a young ladies?”

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

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495. “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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496. “There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom – apple, plum, pear, cherry.”

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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. “The air seems full of specks, floating and circling in the draught from the window, and the lights burn blue and dim.”

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499. “The searchlight followed her, and a shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship. No other form could be seen on the deck at all.”

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500. “Adam, from the moment of their eyes meeting, felt as if they were already friends.”

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