Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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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302. “It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? – Jonathan Harker.”

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303. “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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304. “My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her.”

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305. “I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it’s own calms.”

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306. “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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307. “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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308. “A tall man, thin and pale, with high nose and teeth so white, and eyes that seem to be burning. That he be all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the time.”

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309. “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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310. “You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity.”

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311. “Es mucho trabajo, pero hay recompensas en el hecho de que podamos dar tanta felicidad.”

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312. “We need have no secrets amongst us. Working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than if some of us were in the dark.”

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313. “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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314. “I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal. When I had done, I looked for a bell, so that I might let the servants know I had finished, but I could not find one.”

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

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317. “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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318. “Todo lo desconocido nos parece maravilloso.”

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

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.”

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325. “Oh, very well,” he said; “let her come in, by all means; but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.” His method of tidying was peculiar: he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference.”

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326. “It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?”

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327. “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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328. “Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER.”

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

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330. “Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”

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

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332. “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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333. “I dined on what they called “robber steak” – bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks, and roasted over the fire, in simple style of the London cat’s meat!”

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334. “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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335. “He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.”

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336. “Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason. So, no matter what ground he comes, we must accept his wishes. He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.”

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337. “It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself disassociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought. Am I to take it that I have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together, or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful to him?”

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338. “Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.”

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

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340. “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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341. “Time is all in all to us now.”

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342. “Let us not be two, but one, that we work to good end.”

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343. “As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man’s hand would have any effect on him.”

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344. “On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble – for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone – was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: ‘The dead travel fast.”

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345. “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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346. “Fortunately, I am not of a fainting disposition.”

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347. “I greatly fear that she is of too super-sensitive a nature to go through the world without trouble.”

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348. “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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349. “Siempre existe una causa para un efecto.”

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350. “Author: Bram Stoker.”

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