14 Quotes by Francis Marion Crawford

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.

...like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal....

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.