The Mystery of the Sea Quotes

“There was a pity in her eyes which gave me some comfort, though not much; a man whose
soul is crying out for love does not want pity.”
― Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea

“If any ordinary person be afflicted with ennui and want something to take his thoughts away
from a perpetual consideration of his own weariness let me recommend him to take up the
interpretation of secret writing. At first, perhaps, he may regard the matter lightly and be
inclined to smile at its triviality. But after a little while, if he have in him at all any of the
persistence or doggedness which is, and should be, a part of a man’s nature, he will find the
subject take possession of him to the almost entire exclusion of all else.”
― Bram Stoker , The Mystery of the Sea

“....The secret voices of the brain need not always speak in
thunder; the Dream-Painter within us need not always have a full canvas for the exercise of his
craft.”
― Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea