Quotes from Bram Stoker

mirabile dictu

He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

It is whispered that death has his kingdom in the solitudes beyond the marshes, and lives in a castle so awful to look at that no one has ever seen it. Also it is told that all the evil things that live in the marshes are the disobedient children of death who have left their home and cannot find their way back again

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be

my dear, it never rains, but it pours

Y pensar que aún existen personas ignorantes que dudan de que los locos sepan hilvanar sus ideas!

we learn from failure, not from success

1897 edition How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of latter-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.

the unexpected always happens

TELEGRAM. SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM 4 September.--Patient still better today. TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM 5 September.--Patient greatly improved. Good appetite, sleeps naturally, good spirits, colour coming back. TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM 6 September.--Terrible change for the worse. Come at once. Do not lose an hour. I hold over telegram to Holmwood till have seen you.

in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of. I have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of Amsterdam

The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love.

crux. Van Helsing is simply frantic about it, and I am at my wits' end. I can't even hazard a guess. There has been a series of little circumstances which have thrown out all our calculations as to Lucy being properly watched. But these shall not occur again. Here we stay until all be well, or ill. Quincey held out his hand. Count me in

Cuántos de nosotros comenzamos un nuevo expediente con cada día de nuestra vida?

Aprendemos de los fracasos; no de los éxitos.

For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

The secret voices of the brain need not always speak in thunder; the Dream-Painter within us need not always have a full canvas for the exercise of his craft.

Even in the dark there was a light of some kind, as there ever is over snow; and it seemed as though the snow-flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of women with trailing garments.

Once more I have seen the count go down in his lizard fashion.

Oh, if we had only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy! Stop; that way madness lies!

Recuerde siempre que la risa que toca a su puerta, y dice: "¿puedo entrar?", no es la verdadera risa. ¡No! La risa es una reina, y llega cuando y como quiere. No pregunta a persona alguna; no escoge tiempo o adecuación. Dice: "aquí estoy".

affection, said

doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.

The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one.