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Dracula quotes
18 quotes from Dracula by Bram Stoker. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #345 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
“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.
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart; and he had no one to comfort him.
— Spoken by a character · XVII. DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--continued
But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together.
“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!”
— Spoken by a character · II. JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--continued
I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.
— Spoken by a character · II. JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--continued
We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.
— Spoken by a character · II. JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--continued
And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big sorrowing man’s head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child.
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.
— Spoken by a character · XIV. MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL