Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There is a method in his madness.”

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

— Bram Stoker

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

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54. “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!”

— Bram Stoker

55. “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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56. “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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57. “Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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68. “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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69. “And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.”

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

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71. “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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72. “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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73. “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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74. “I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”

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

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

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

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

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79. “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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80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “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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85. “We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.”

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86. “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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87. “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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88. “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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89. “Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.”

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90. “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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91. “Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”

— Bram Stoker

92. “I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.”

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93. “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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94. “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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95. “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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96. “Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.”

— Bram Stoker

97. “Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.”

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98. “And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!”

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99. “Oceans of love and millions of kisses, and may you soon be in your own home with your husband.”

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100. “It’s better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.”

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