Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I wish you could be coming home soon enough to stay with us here. This strong air would soon restore Jonathan; it has quite restored me.”

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252. “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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253. “Bila kita berhadapan dengan kengerian yang begitu hebat, barulah kita mengerti apa arti kengerian itu sebenarnya.”

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254. “It was better to die like a man; to die like a sailor in blue water no man can object. But I am captain, and must not leave my ship. But I shall baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie my hands to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with them I will tie that which He- It!- dare not touch; and then, come good wind or foul, I shall save my soul, and my honour as captain.”

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255. “But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires.”

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256. “Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”

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257. “The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.”

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258. “He laughed till he cried, and I had to draw down the blinds lest anyone should see us and misjudge; and then he cried, till he laughed again; and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does.”

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259. “Amo la sombra y la oscuridad, y prefiero, cuando puedo, estar a solas con mis pensamientos.”

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260. “Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!”

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261. “My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly.”

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262. “He was lying on his belly on the floor, licking up, like a dog, the blood from my wounded wrist.”

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263. “Even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under.”

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264. “If I could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good, unselfish cause to make me work, that would be indeed happiness.”

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265. “Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.”

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266. “Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.”

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267. “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. Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with ‘virgin crants and maiden strewments.’ I never liked garlic before, but tonight it is delightful! There is peace in its smell. I feel sleep coming already. Goodnight, everybody. DR.”

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268. “Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.”

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269. “And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.”

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270. “I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.”

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271. “Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!”

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272. “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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273. “We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died.”

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274. “But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were.”

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275. “Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain? Had I even the secret of one such mind, did I hold the key to the fancy of even one lunatic, I might advance my own branch of science to a pitch compared with which Burdon-Sanderson’s physiology or Ferrier’s brain knowledge would be as nothing.”

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276. “What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?”

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277. “He took with him a bag in which were many instruments and drugs, ‘the ghastly paraphernalia of our beneficial trade’, as he once called, in one of his lectures, the equipment of a professor of the healing craft.”

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278. “Pero un extranjero en una tierra extranjera, no es nadie; los hombres no lo conocen, y no conocer es no importar.”

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279. “We only waited to learn where the change would occur. None the less, however, it was a surprise. I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o’-the-wisp to man.”

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280. “To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.’ For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck.”

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281. “The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love.”

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282. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot and you will survive whatever is coming.”

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283. “My dears, I want to drink your health and prosperity; and may every blessing attend you both. I know you both from children, and have, with love and pride, seen you grow up. Now I want you to make your home here with me. I have left to me neither chick nor child; all are gone, and in my will I have left you everything.”

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284. “She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus.”

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285. “It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.”

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286. “I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be.”

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287. “Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.”

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288. “Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable.”

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289. “I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young.”

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290. “One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah, yes, I know, friend John. I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go.” In.”

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291. “Todo lo desconocido nos parece maravilloso.”

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292. “I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where.”

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293. “And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.”

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294. “I know you well enough, you are the old fool Van Helsing. I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else. Damn all thick-headed Dutchmen!”

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295. “Back, back to you own place! Your time is not yet come. Wait. Have patience. Tomorrow night, tomorrow night, is yours!”

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296. “How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one.”

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297. “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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298. “What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?”

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299. “I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.”

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300. “Oh, yes! They, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten. It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.” Whilst.”

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