Quotes from Bram Stoker

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. Oh, if men only knew!

The time is come, I fear, when I must open the parcel, and know what is written.

Despair has its own calm.

The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.

Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?

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.

When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail.

La vida es después de todo una espera por algo distinto de lo que estamos haciendo y la muerte es en lo único que podemos confiar con certeza.

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.

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

Had it but been for myself the choice had been easy, the maw of the wolf were better to rest in than the grave of the Vampire!

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?

He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.

Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already.

How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one.

I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength; and as I knew I was a madman—at times anyhow—I resolved to use my power.

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.

Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess

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

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

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

They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to dawn or at the turn of the tide.

Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty; for under the circumstances it wouldn't seem so bad for us to break into an empty house. But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have known better.