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Bram Stoker quotes
13 quotes from 3 of Bram Stoker’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
Dracula
“Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make!”
— Spoken by a character · II. JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--continued
“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!”
— Spoken by a character · II. JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--continued
Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter X
Despair has its own calms.
We learn from failure, not from success!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter X
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter V
The blood is the life!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XI
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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, with such unknown horrors 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.
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
Dracula's Guest
Be careful of my guest—his safety is most precious to me.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
We learn of great things by little experiences.
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.