Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stokerwas an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 November 1847
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
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Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,as if from fear... Then, far off in the distance, from the mountains on each side of us began a louderand a sharper howling - that of wolves - which affected both horses and myself in the same way -for I was minded to jump from the caleche and run, whilst they reared again and plunged madly, so that the driver had to use all his great strength to keep them from bolting.
fear thinking sea
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. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
dance friend full king laugh laughter sad strange tune
Oh, friend John, 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.
believe want i-want-you
I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
mad sanity shall wake
I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
belief close doubt learned life mad matter open ordinary strange tried
I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
thinking mad sometimes
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
good-morning sweet pain
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
despair calm
Despair has its own calms.
dream sweet pain
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.
reason-why reason all-things
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
memories stronger remember
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
thoughtful men good-man
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.