Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I.”

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402. “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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403. “Bless that good, good woman who hung the crucifix round my neck! for it is a comfort and a strength to me whenever I touch it. 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. Is it that there is something in the essence of the thing itself, or that it is a medium, a tangible help, in conveying memories of sympathy and comfort?”

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404. “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear.”

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405. “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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406. “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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407. “Oh, if we had only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy! Stop; that way madness lies!”

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408. “You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge that you do not die – nay nor think of death – till this great evil be past.”

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409. “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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410. “He swear much, and he red face and loud of voice, but he good fellow all the same;.”

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411. “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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412. “After a time, it did not seem a short time either, for the draining away of one’s blood, no matter how willingly it be given, is a terrible feeling, Van Helsing held up a warning finger. “Do not stir,” he said. “But I fear that with growing strength she may wake, and that would make danger, oh, so much danger. But I shall precaution take. I shall give hypodermic injection of morphia.” He proceeded then, swiftly.”

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413. “Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies, therefore I like it.” And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do not argue.”

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414. “Life is nothings; I heed him not. But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him – without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. To us forever are the gates of heaven shut; for who shall open them to us again? We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God’s sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man.”

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

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “Arthur turned to him and said, ‘If only you knew how gladly I would die for her you would understand.”

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419. “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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420. “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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421. “You must promise me, one and all – even you, my beloved husband – that, should the time come, you will kill me.”

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

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424. “I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to making myself master of the facts of his hallucination. In my manner of doing it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to wish to keep to the point of his madness-a thing which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.”

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425. “Some of the ‘New Women’ writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the ‘New Woman’ won’t condescend in future to accept. She will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it too!”

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426. “All our work is undone; we must begin again. There is no young Arthur here now; I have to call on your yourself this time, friend John.”

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427. “I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me. – D.”

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428. “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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429. “When all was over, I could see how much Arthur was weakened. I dressed the wound and took his arm to bring him away, when Van Helsing spoke without turning round, the man seems to have eyes in the back of his head, “The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have presently.” And as he had now finished his operation, he adjusted the pillow to the patient’s head. As.”

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430. “How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.”

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431. “Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.”

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

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433. “Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.”

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434. “Truly Miss Lucy, if she be sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends that love her. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Oh yes, friend John; I am not blind! I love you all the more for it!”

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435. “Let me advise you, my dear young friend-nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe.”

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436. “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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437. “And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.”

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438. “I was conscious of the presence of the count, and of his being as if lapped in a stain of fury.”

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439. “I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of instinct; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were stirring to answer the call.”

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440. “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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441. “I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.”

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

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443. “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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444. “At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight.”

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

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447. “Then tell me – for I am a student of the brain – how you accept the hypnotism and reject the thought reading.”

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

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449. “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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450. “I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.”

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