Quotes from Bram Stoker

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.

When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it.

I told him exactly what had happened and he listened with seeming impassiveness, but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to the open wound in his breast. It interested me, even at that moment, to see that whilst the face of white set passion worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair.

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

I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

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.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not - and to know not is to not care for.

Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

My dearest Mina, Oceans of love and millions of kisses

When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.

He came back full of life and hope and determination.

Toute abstraction est si dure à accepter que notre premier réflexe est de la refuser, d'autant plus si elle s'inscrit à contre-courant de ce que nous avons toujours pensé.»

His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

I am too miserable, too low spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, that I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself.

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.

My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble.

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

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