Dracula Quotes
"The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East."
"I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it."
"The further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?"
"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!"
"I am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he sees me, or pauses in his speaking if he hears my words."
"The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace."
"We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways."
"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."
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
"When a man's heart is full, it runs out of his eyes."
"To believe in things that you cannot is the first step towards knowledge."
"There is a purpose in all things, for those who seek."
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
"There is nothing so dangerous, as a man who knows he is right."
"Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret."
"There is no young Arthur here now. I have to call on you yourself this time, friend John."
"The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have presently."
"You must send me the telegram every day, and if there be cause I shall come again."
"I promise," said Lucy. "And thank you both a thousand times for all your kindness to me!"
"Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late!"
"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."
"My dear, please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises, a long day of sunshine, with no harsh wind, no forgetting duty, no distrust."
"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker."
"I pity your poor bleeding heart, and I love you the more because it does so bleed."
"Oh, my God! My God! If only I knew! If only I knew!"
"I am friend of Dr. John Seward and of Lord Godalming (that was Arthur of Miss Lucy)."
"It is not well that her very thoughts go into the hands of strangers."
"Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter."
"Oh, Madam Mina, I know that the friend of that poor little girl must be good."
"It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was friend of that poor dear child Lucy Westenra."
"I have read your letters to Miss Lucy. Forgive me, but I had to begin to inquire somewhere."
"Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always so with young ladies."
"I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths."
"Oh, you so clever woman!" he said. "I knew long that Mr. Jonathan was a man of much thankfulness."
"Forgive me. I could not help it, but I had been thinking that it was of dear Lucy that you wished to ask."
"You are so good," he said. "And may I read it now? I may want to ask you some things when I have read."
"How can I say what I owe to you? This paper is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me."
"If ever Abraham Van Helsing can do anything for you or yours, I trust you will let me know."
"You are one of the lights. You will have a happy life and a good life."
"Your husband is noble nature, and you are noble too, for you trust, and trust cannot be where there is mean nature."
"He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something which led to his brain fever."
"My life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships."
"I am glad, glad, that I may here be of some use to you. For if your husband suffer, he suffer within the range of my study and experience."
"I promise you that I will gladly do all for him that I can, all to make his life strong and manly, and your life a happy one."
"I have read your husband's so wonderful diary. You may sleep without doubt. Strange and terrible as it is, it is true!"
"A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has taken a great weight off my mind."
"I thought never to write in this diary again, but the time has come."
"It was so funny to hear my wife called 'Madam Mina' by this kindly, strong-faced old man."
"She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter."
"You are a clever man, friend John. You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced."
"I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings."
"I don't want any souls, indeed, indeed! I don't."
"The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature. It's wings are typical of the aerial powers of the psychic faculties."
"I don't want an elephant's soul, or any soul at all!"
"You do not need any help. I am so worried in my mind that I am apt to be irritable."
"If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and tolerate, and pardon me."
"I have friends, good friends, like you, Dr. Seward."
"Oh, my dear Madam Mina, this is indeed a change. See! Friend Jonathan, we have got our dear Madam Mina, as of old, back to us today!"
"I want you to hypnotize me! Do it before the dawn, for I feel that then I can speak, and speak freely."
"I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own."
"He, our enemy, have gone away. He have gone back to his Castle in Transylvania."
"Take heart afresh, dear husband of Madam Mina. This battle is but begun and in the end we shall win."
"There is something of a guiding purpose manifest throughout, which is comforting."
"Our meeting for report. Present: Professor Van Helsing, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, Mr. Quincey Morris, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker."
"She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence to other ports and up the Danube."
"But nevertheless they tell us all things which we want to know."
"My soul is freer than it has been since that awful hour."
"It is enough for the present for one to be on watch."
"God forbid that I should take her into that place."
"It is well to be accurate, and every minute is precious."
"God grant that we may be guided aright, and that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both, and who are in such deadly peril."
"It is cold, cold. So cold that the grey heavy sky is full of snow, which when it falls will settle for all winter as the ground is hardening to receive it."
"Something whisper to me that all is not well."
"Oh, what will tomorrow bring to us? We go to seek the place where my poor darling suffered so much."
"Fear for me! Why fear for me? None safer in all the world from them than I am."
"The sense of safety in that ring wherein I stood."
"God's will be done, whatever it may be, and whithersoever it may lead!"
"The many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain."