Wisdom of Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker (November 8th,1847 – April 20th, 1912), known by his pen name Bram Stoker was the Irish author of Dracula, published in 1897. He became regarded by many as the father of vampire fiction.

Stoker wrote twelve mystery and horror novels. Dracula was one of the best-selling works of vampire fiction since the early 20th century and Count Dracula is one of the well-known fictional figures of the Victorian era. There have been more than 700 adaptations of the character.

He had an interest in the occult for his writing, but hated fraud and believed in the scientific method over superstition. Stoker was a Freemason and rose to the degree of Master Mason.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Bram Stoker.

"We learn of great things by little experiences."

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

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

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

"The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts forever is a pure, fair soul."

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

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

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

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

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

"I will not let you go into the unknown alone."

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

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

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

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

"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?"

"Souls and memories can do strange things during trance."

"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."

"I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does."

"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."

"Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands."

"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 hope and enjoyment."

"Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength."

"My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side."

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

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

"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!"

"But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for." ~ Bram Stoker

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

"The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man."

"Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards"

"Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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."

"The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message."

"She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death."

"I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing."

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

"All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world."

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