Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “However, when we got to the pathway outside the churchyard, where there was a puddle of water, remaining from the storm, I daubed my feet with mud, using each foot in turn on the other, so that as we went home, no one, in case we should meet any one, should notice my bare feet.”

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402. “But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one.”

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403. “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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404. “No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do; and I warn you that you do thwart me. Take care, for the sake of others if not for your own.”

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405. “Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.”

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406. “He says I afford him a curious psychological study, and I humbly think I do.”

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407. “These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.”

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408. “And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my design! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me, against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born, I was countermining them.”

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409. “The poor dear was evidently terrified at something-very greatly terrified; I do believe that if he had not had me to lean on and support him, he would have sunk down.”

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

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411. “My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.”

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412. “Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace;.”

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413. “I picked out one who has afforded me a study of interest. He is so quaint in his ideas, and so unlike the normal lunatic, that I have determined to understand him as well as I can. Today I seemed to get nearer than ever before to the heart of his mystery.”

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414. “This morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday... I feel strangely sad and low-spirited to-day. I suppose it is the reaction from the terrible excitement... I didn’t feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring anxiety... it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.”

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415. “Some of the “New Women” writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.”

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416. “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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417. “This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!”

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418. “As I look round this room, although it has been to me so full of fear, it is now a sort of sanctuary, for nothing can be more dreadful than those awful women, who were-who are-waiting to suck my blood.”

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419. “Jack, if you may tell me without betraying confidence. Arthur was the first; is that not so?”

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420. “Author: Bram Stoker.”

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421. “The horses are nearly ready, and we are soon off. We ride to death of some one. God alone knows who, or where, or what, or when, or how it may be...”

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422. “I have had a great shock, and when I try to think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I do not know if it was all real or the dreaming of a madman.”

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423. “I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.”

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424. “Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing. I was dazed and stupid with pain and terror and weakness, but the sound of the nightingale seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort me.”

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425. “Gott in Himmel!”

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426. “Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I.”

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427. “The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On.”

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428. “I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted – or blessed – with something of his own obsequious suavity.”

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429. “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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430. “How can he” – and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of – “know anything of a young ladies?”

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431. “He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibriate it.”

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432. “There was something so strange in all this, something so weird and impossible to imagine, that there grew on me a sense of my being in some way the sport of opposite forces – the mere vague idea of which seemed in a way to paralyse me. I was certainly under some form of mysterious protection. From a distant country had come, in the very nick of time, a message that took me out of the danger of the snow-sleep and the jaws of the wolf.”

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433. “Do you know all the mystery of life and death? Do you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others? 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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434. “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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435. “Fortunately, I am not of a fainting disposition.”

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436. “For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.”

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437. “I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the count must have carried here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result.”

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438. “And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I.”

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439. “If you will not help us in our effort to choose the wisest course, how can we perform the duty which you yourself put upon us?”

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440. “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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441. “Oh, if we had only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy! Stop; that way madness lies!”

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442. “Siempre existe una causa para un efecto.”

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443. “I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people?”

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444. “Her struggle back to life was something frightful to see and hear.”

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445. “I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was closing around me more closely.”

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446. “As I raised the blind, the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the professor’s low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart.”

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447. “I never knew either father or mother, so that the dear old man’s death is a real blow for me.”

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448. “But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.”

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449. “Arthur turned to him and said, ‘If only you knew how gladly I would die for her you would understand.”

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450. “It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.”

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