Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be...

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...

Miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

(La risa) es una reina que viene y va. No le pregunta a nadie, no elige los momentos adecuados (…), la Reina Risa viene a mi y me grita al oído: ¡Aquí estoy! ¡Aquí estoy!,...

Let me advise you, my dear young friend– nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part...

I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside...

We learn from failure, not from success!

These friends – and he laid his hand on some of the books – have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London,...

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he...

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

The blood is the life!

I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have...

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...

She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Tell me about it dear; for there is nothing which interests you which will not be dear to me

Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of...

I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day;...

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.

These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity...

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander...

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to...

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which...

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking....

I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window...

Nes juk galų gale gyvenimas yra ne tai, ką mes darome, o tik laukimas kažko kito, ir mirtis yra tai, kuo galime be dvejonių pasikliauti.

This will not do,’ he said to himself. ‘If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was...

Mes, moterys, turime motinišką instinktą, kuris pabudęs iškelia mus virš smulkmeniškumo. Jaučiau ant savo peties šio didelio vyro galvą tarsi vaiko, kurį kada nors glausiu prie savo krūtines.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

Yo soy Drácula. Le doy la bienvenida, señor Harker, a mi casa.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.