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98 Top Quotes By Bram Stoker. The Author Of Dracula

Famous As: Irish Author Best Known for His Horror Novel ‘Dracula’
Born On: 1847
Died On: 1912
Born In: Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Died At Age: 64
Abraham Stoker, who was better known by his nickname Bram, was an author from Ireland, who wrote the legendary gothic novel Dracula in 1897. Stoker studied mathematics at the prestigious Trinity College in Dublin and since he had been a theatre buff during his days a student, he secured a job as theatre critic at the publication Dublin Evening Mail. Later on he got on touch with actor Henry Irving and became his assistant, before being appointed as the manager at the famous Lyceum Theater. However, Stoker will always be known for being the author of Dracula, that went on to become one of the greatest novels in the genre of gothic fiction of all time and has been read by millions of people all over the world. The book has also been the subject of several plays, telivision series and films. His other notable works include, The Primrose Path, Miss Betty, Lady Athlyne, The Shoulder of Shasta, The Lair of the White Worm and The Jewel of Seven Stars among others. Stoke is without doubt one of the most significant authors to have ever lived and here are some of the more famous quotes from his life and work.
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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

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

Bram Stoker
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Bram Stoker
We learn from failure, not from success!

We learn from failure, not from success!

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

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

Bram Stoker
There is a reason why all things are as they are.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

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

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

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

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

Bram Stoker
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!

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!

Bram Stoker
I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

Bram Stoker
Despair has its own calms.

Despair has its own calms.

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

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

Bram Stoker
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

Bram Stoker
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Bram Stoker
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.

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.

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

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

Bram Stoker
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Bram Stoker
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Bram Stoker
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

Bram Stoker
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

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.

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

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

Bram Stoker
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.

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
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.

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
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.

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
The blood is the life!

The blood is the life!

Bram Stoker
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

Bram Stoker
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Bram Stoker
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.

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.

Bram Stoker
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.

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
Euthanasia

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Bram Stoker