Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?”

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302. “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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303. “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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304. “I suppose there is something in a women’s nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.”

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305. “He has now so far quieted that there are spells of cessation from his passion.”

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306. “It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help.”

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307. “A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man’s heart. I.”

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308. “He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He.”

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309. “I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me. It is destroying my nerve. I start at my own shadow, and am full of all sorts of horrible imaginings. God knows that there is ground for my terrible fear in this accursed place!”

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310. “She came at once, after saying pleasantly to Mr Renfield: ‘Good-bye, and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to yourself’, to which, to my astonishment, he replied: ‘Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. May He bless and keep you!”

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311. “I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky.”

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312. “I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.”

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313. “15 MAY.-Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.”

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314. “When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.”

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315. “There was something diabolically sweet in her tones – something of the tingling of glass when struck – which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.”

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316. “If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.”

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317. “When I told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter’s renewed strength and excellent spirits. I was firm, however, and made preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by the bedside. She.”

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318. “Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young like the fine ladies at the opera. I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism.”

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319. “A brave man’s hand can speak for itself;.”

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320. “I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count’s voice saying to me, “Good morning.” I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.”

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321. “Was this desolation but another link in the chain of doom which seemed drawing tight around us? Was it indeed a house of death to which I had to come too late?”

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322. “So, my dear, we will send him away to smoke the cigarette in the garden, whiles you and I have little talk all to ourselves.′ I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the professor came to the window and called me in. He.”

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323. “They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to dawn or at the turn of the tide.”

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324. “When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.”

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325. “I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I die in the doing.”

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326. “It is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time.”

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327. “Nosotras, las mujeres, tenemos algo de madres que nos hace elevarnos sobre las cosas menos importantes cuando se invoca la maternidad;.”

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328. “Now take down our brave young lover, give him of the port wine, and let him lie down for a while. He must then go home and rest, sleep much and eat much, that he may be resusciated of what he has given to his love. He must not stay here.”

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329. “But now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy.”

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330. “Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?” He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. “Would I were!” he said. “Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.”

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331. “Do you ever try to read your own face? I do, and I can tell you it is not a bad study, and gives you more trouble than you can well fancy if you have never tried it.”

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332. “This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.”

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333. “Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted.”

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334. “Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling.”

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335. “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. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”

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336. “Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I’m going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.”

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337. “His face was not a good face; it was hard, and cruel, and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like an animal’s. Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.”

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338. “I loved him and honoured him more than I can say, and that my latest and truest thought will be always for him.”

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339. “He removed the flowers and lifted the silk handkerchief from her throat. As he did so he started back and I could hear his ejaculation, “Mein Gott!” as it was smothered in his throat. I.”

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340. “Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart; and I love you the more because it does so bleed.”

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341. “When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done. I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion.”

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342. “You’ve got their lives, you know, and you must put up with their souls!”

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343. “How can I escape from the dreadful thrall of night and gloom and fear?”

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344. “I quite love that dear Dr Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already.”

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345. “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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346. “In the dawn of the language, the word ‘worm’ had a somewhat different meaning from that in use to-day. It was an adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon ‘wyrm,’ meaning a dragon or snake; or from the Gothic ‘waurms,’ a serpent;.”

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347. “The count’s mysterious warning frightened me at the time, it frightens me more now when I think of it, for in future he has a fearful hold upon me. I shall fear to doubt what he may say!”

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348. “The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.”

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349. “I positively opened my eyes at this new development. Here was my own pet lunatic – the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with – talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman.”

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350. “Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.”

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