Dracula Quotes

“I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young, and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, “I am here!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“We ride to death of some one. God alone knows who, or where, or what, or when, or how it may be…”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he sting once. He is only stronger, and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil. This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small; and he can at times vanish and come unknown. How then are we to begin our strike to destroy him?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Oh, Madam Mina, good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. And we men who wish to know have in us something of angels’ eyes.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There was a wilderness of beautiful white flowers, and death was made as little repulsive as might be.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“We shall tonight play sane wits against mad ones.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand. If not… well, then all men shall know that I have been true to my trust. God and the Blessed Virgin and the Saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to do his duty…”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth”
― 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

“How true the old proverbs are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“At the worst it can only be death, and a man’s death is not a calf’s, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, “Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger’s “Lenore”. “Denn die Todten reiten Schnell.” (“For the dead travel fast.”)”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”--Satan, “Pokol”--hell, “stregoica”--witch, “vrolok” and “vlkoslak”--both mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either werewolf or vampire. (Mem., I must ask the Count about these superstitions.)”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“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? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Bienvenue au voyageur qui arrive, mais ne faites pas perdre son temps au voyageur qui repart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Le pire qui puisse m'arriver est de mourir, mais la mort d'un homme n'est pas celle d'un animal et la porte de l'après-vie me sera peut-être même entrouverte.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Il n'est pas d'homme qui sache, s'il n'a pas souffert des affres de la nuit, à quel point l'aube peut mettre du baume au coeur et rassurer le regard.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“expostulate.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“obeisance”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“compunction”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula