Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “No sabe usted lo que es dudar de todo, incluso de uno mismo.”

— Bram Stoker

52. “God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.”

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

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

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55. “There is a method in his madness.”

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56. “I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.”

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57. “How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men – even if there are monsters in it.”

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58. “There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!”

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59. “She has man’s brain – a brain that a man should have were he much gifted – and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”

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60. “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.”

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61. “No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

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62. “Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

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63. “I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”

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64. “I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”

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65. “I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”

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66. “You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?”

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67. “She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.”

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68. “This man belongs to me, I want him!”

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69. “Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.”

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70. “No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

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71. “We’ve all become god’s madmen, all of us.”

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72. “Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps?”

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73. “It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

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74. “I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”

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75. “For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.”

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76. “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.”

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77. “She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It’s quite a privilege to attend on her. It’s not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!”

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78. “Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.”

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79. “Sleep has no place it can call its own.”

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80. “Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.”

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81. “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

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82. “3 May. Bistritz. – Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.”

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83. “There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”

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84. “I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”

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85. “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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86. “She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.”

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87. “Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.”

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88. “My Friend, – Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night. At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, Dracula.”

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89. “I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.”

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90. “We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.”

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91. “At the worst it can only be death, and a man’s death is not a calf’s, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same.”

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92. “We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.”

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93. “White, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death, and many a one shuddered as the wreaths of sea-mist swept by. At.”

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94. “She said, “Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or implication, not at any time whilst this remains to me!”

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95. “Death and the devil go together, and so sure as the devil grips hold of you, death is not far off, you may be sure, in some form or other, waiting, waiting, waiting.”

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96. “Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.”

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97. “A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.”

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98. “Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!”

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99. “Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room. Winning a way past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was something so pantherlike in the movement, something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming.”

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100. “Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer – both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

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