"We learn from failure, not from success!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"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."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Despair has its own calms"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.
And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture
Then lapped the white, sharp teeth.
Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited. "
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
-Count Dracula to Jonathan Harker"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"I will not let you go into the unknown alone."
— Bram Stoker

""There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights"
Dr. Van Helsing to Mina"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"There is a reason why all things are as they are."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
— Bram Stoker

""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.""
— Bram Stoker

"Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow...
Some of the...Oh my god…my god
What have I done?
"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Take me away from all this Death."
— Bram Stoker

"The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Though sympathy cant alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable"
— Bram Stoker (DRACULA)

"Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker"
— Bram Stoker (DRACULA)

"Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. "
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart..."
~Quincey Morris"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"We learn of great things by little experiences."
— Bram Stoker (The Jewel of Seven Stars)

"There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Despair has its own calms"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"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."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Sleep has no place it can call its own."
— Bram Stoker

"once, again...welcome to my house. come freely. go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
-count dracula to jonathan harker"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Listen to them,children of the night. Such sweet music they make."
— Bram Stoker

"I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me - against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born - I was countermining them. And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper. You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. You have aided in thwarting me; now you shall come to my call."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"i am Dracula;and i bid you welcome,Mr. Harker,to my house."
— Bram Stoker

"There is a reason that all things are as they are."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Listen to them-the children of the night. What sweet music they make!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Yo soy Drácula. Le doy la bienvenida, señor Harker, a mi casa."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

""Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely. And leave something of the happiness you bring!""
— Bram Stoker

"....she had been to a tea-party with
an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date
men-servants."
— Bram Stoker (The Lair of the White Worm)

"Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for something other than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"I have been so long master that I would be master still — or at least that none other should be master of me."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing,"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"La desazón es un instinto y un modo de advertencia."
— Bram Stoker (L'Enterrement des rats et autres nouvelles)

"Clasps his laps around minas throat, pieces her skin and drinks her blood. He then forces her into an act that binds her to the vampire for eternity"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"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. Bleeding hearts, and dry
bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all
dance together to the music that he make with that
smileless mouth of him.
Ah, we men and women
are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different
ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes,
they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too
great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the
sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to
go on with our labor, what it may be.’"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

""Welcome to my house! Come freely. Go safely;and leave something of the happiness you bring!" "
— Bram Stoker

"You yourself never loved; you never love!

Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?"
— Bram Stoker