Quotes from Bram Stoker

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

There was a pity in her eyes which gave me some comfort, though not much; a man whose soul is crying out for love does not want pity.

Quería decir que debemos tener un espíritu abierto, y no permitir que una pequeña verdad obstruya el curso de las grandes verdades, como una pequeña roca obstruye el paso del tren.

La desesperación tiene sus propias calmas.

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

give a guest everything and leave him to do as he likes.

La seño ra Westenra

encendidas las lámparas, y encontré al conde yaciendo en el sofá, leyendo, de todas las cosas en el mundo, una Guía Inglesa de Bradshaw. Cuando yo entré, él quitó los libros y papeles de la mesa; y entonces comencé a explicarle los planos y los hechos, y los números. Estaba interesado por todo, y me hizo infinidad de preguntas relacionadas con el lugar y sus alrededores. Estaba claro que él había estudiado de antemano

Ah, o defeito da nossa ciência é que ela quer explicar tudo, e se não consegue explicar, então diz que não há nada a explicar. Ainda assim, vemos ao nosso redor todos os dias o crescimento de novas convicções, que pensam que são novas, e que não são nada mais que coisas antigas que fingem ser novas, como as belas damas na ópera.

No podía evitar experimentar ese escalofrío que nos invade al llegar el amanecer, que es, a su modo, como un cambio de marea (...) cualquiera que alguna vez, al estar cansado y, por decirlo de algún modo, atado a su sitio haya experimentado ese cambio de atmósfera puede creerlo.

Festina lente

it often happened that after death faces become softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty, that this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged suffering.

ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling.

Habrá mucho dolor para todos nosotros; pero no todo será dolor, ni este dolor será el último. Nosotros y usted también, usted más que nadie, mi querido amigo, tendremos que pasar a través del agua amarga antes de llegar a la dulce. Pero debemos ser valientes y desinteresados, y cumplir con nuestro deber; todo saldrá bien.

Are we to have nothing tonight? said one of them, with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and which moved as though there were some living thing within it. For answer he nodded his head. One of the women jumped forward and opened it. If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half smothered child. The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror. But as I looked, they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag.

Ich glaube, dass keiner mich für grausam halten wird, weil ich nun eines der alten Richtschwerter in beide Hände nahm und die Katze in zwei Teile spaltete, während sie so dasaß.

he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven

They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to the dawn or at the turn of the tide; any one who has when tired, and tied as it were to his post, experienced this change in the atmosphere can well believe it.

We have been blind somewhat; blind after the manner of men, since when we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?

I suppose there is something in a woman's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.

embora a solidariedade não altere os fatos, ajuda a torná-los mais suportáveis.

God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.

He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that prevent him say goodbye as he ought

Cuando el corazón de una mujer está libre, el que la ama puede albergar siempre una esperanza.