Quotes from Bram Stoker

La naturaleza trabaja sobre unas bases de esperanza tales que creemos, aun contra nuestras propias creencias, que las cosas saldrán como deben salir, no como sabemos que saldrán.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.

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.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

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.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

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.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

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.

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

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?

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.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.

i would rather be an angel than God

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very men who discovered electricity - who themselves not so long before would have been burned as wizards.