Quotes by Bram Stoker

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

“If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.”

“I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.”

“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. ...”

“preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed,...”

“And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.”

“These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pl...”

“There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.”

“The blood is the life!”

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

“I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a cen...”

“Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.”

“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.”

“I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had o...”

“Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”

“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”

“In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.”

“Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no t...”

“As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.”

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