Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “Fortunately, I am not of a fainting disposition.”

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403. “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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404. “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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405. “And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I.”

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406. “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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407. “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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408. “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear.”

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

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “Siempre existe una causa para un efecto.”

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

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420. “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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421. “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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422. “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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423. “How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.”

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

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

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

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428. “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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429. “All this weakness comes to me in sleep; until I dread the very thought.”

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430. “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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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. “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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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. “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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437. “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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438. “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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439. “What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.”

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

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

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442. “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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443. “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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444. “The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.”

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445. “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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446. “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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447. “Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER.”

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

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

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450. “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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