Quotes from Dracula

Bram Stoker ·  488 pages

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“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula



“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula



“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula



“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula



“Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. 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.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“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.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula



“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


“There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.
And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture
Then lapped the white, sharp teeth.
Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited. ”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula


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Bram Stoker
Born place: in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland
Born date November 8, 1847
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