349 Quotes by Bram Stoker

And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.

And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study. Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.

There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said: – “Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!

Well, the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.

White, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death, and many a one shuddered as the wreaths of sea-mist swept by. At.

When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ’that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.