Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stokerwas an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 November 1847
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
revenge sides century
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
thoughtful men good-man
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
movie children halloween
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
memories stronger remember
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
dream sweet pain
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, and with such unknown horror 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.
reason-why reason all-things
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
despair calm
Despair has its own calms.
good-morning sweet pain
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
thinking mad sometimes
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
men faces horror
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
thinking mad laughing
Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
eve full strikes
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
dance friend full king laugh laughter sad strange tune
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.
affected again began both dog driver farming great horses house howl jump minded mountains road sharper side somewhere strength whilst wolves
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,as if from fear... Then, far off in the distance, from the mountains on each side of us began a louderand a sharper howling - that of wolves - which affected both horses and myself in the same way -for I was minded to jump from the caleche and run, whilst they reared again and plunged madly, so that the driver had to use all his great strength to keep them from bolting.