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25 of the best book quotes from Dracula. 01. “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!
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- “We learn from failure, not from success!” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula.
- “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, Dracula.
- “Once again... welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula.
- “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.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula.
Feb 22, 2021 · Here are some of the best 'Dracula' quotes from Bram Stoker's novel, that have paved the way for modern-day sparkly vampires whom teens are now crazy for.
- Quotes from Dracula Himself
- Johnathan Harker Quotes
- Mina Murray Harker Quotes
- Lucy Westenra Quotes
- Life Lessons from Bram Stoker
- Bram Stoker Quotes About Death
"The blood is the life! The blood is the life!"
~Renfield, Dr. John Seward's patient, Seward's diary entry on 17 September, Chapter 11. Renfield mutters this over and over as he licks the blood pooling from Seward's wrist after attacking him with a knife. In Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film version, this maniacal utterance was turned into Vlad the Impaler's line—played by Gary Oldman—before becoming Dracula. Vlad returns home from war to find his wife has died by suicide. Vlad strikes the cross at the altar with his sword, blood begins to...
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
~Count Dracula to Mr. Jonathan Harker found in Harker's journal dated 5 May, Chapter 2. Have you ever heard wolves howl? It isquite intoxicating.
"My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine—my creatures, to do m...
~Dracula to Van Helsing’s group, Dr. Seward's diary dated 3 October, Chapter 23. Dracula declares his vengeful intention to continue to prey for centuries to come.
"Then as time went on, and I had got somewhat bolder, I asked him of some of the strange things of the preceding night, as, for instance, why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the b...
~Mr. Jonathan Harker's journal 5 May, Chapter 2. May 4th—the eve of St. George—is said to be one of the most dangerous days of the year when evil spirits run free. If you happen to have watched the 1992 adaptation, this is Keanu Reeves' blue inferno.
"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."
~Miss Mina Murray to Lucy Westenra in a letter dated 6 May, Chapter 5. What beautiful imagery of the closest of friends who dream of galavanting together by the sea. Little do they know what Bram Stoker has in store for them soon.
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the lights of all lights.”
~Dr. John Seward to Mina Harker found in her journal entry dated 25 September, Chapter 14. In Stoker's Dracula, Mina is the ideal virtuous and wholesome Victorian woman.
"We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked."
~Mina Harker's journal dated 30 September, Chapter 17. Poor Arthur Holmwood, Lucy Westenra's fiancé, needs the comfort of a mother figure—Mina—after driving a stake through his undead lover's heart.
"Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?"
~Lucy Westenra to Miss Mina Murray in a letter dated 24 May, Chapter 5. Oh, don't we all, Lucy? But what's more trouble: turning them down or living with them? Lucy Westenra is quite the model of purity in this moment, but this quote in Bram Stoker's Draculabook foreshadows the lustful and sexualized vampire she will become.
"Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness."
~Dr. John Seward's diary dated 26 September, Chapter 16. Here we are 21 chapters later and Lucy Westenra (now a vampire) who previously represented the ideal Victorian feminine—beautiful, delicate, pure, innocent...angelic—has unleashed her repressed sexuality and become the aggressor.
“The world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.”
~Mrs. Mina Harker's journal entry on 29 September, Chapter 17. In this infamous quote, Mina refers to Dr. Seward, but it is also a metaphor for the world at large and even today, right? Even though there are many evils in the world, many good people can still be found.
"I want you to believe...To believe in things you cannot."
~Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward found in Seward's diary dated 26 September, Chapter 14.
"We learn from failure, not from success!"
~Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward as noted in Seward's diary dated 7 September, Chapter 10.
"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."
~Mr. Swales to Mina (Murray) Harker as noted in her journal dated 6 August. Bram Stoker's quote here is poignant...and wrong if we're talking about vampires!
“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”
~Dr. John Seward's diary dated 26 September, Chapter 14. Professor Abraham Van Helsing informs Dr. Seward that Lucy Westenra has risen from her grave and is now a blood-sucking vampire. Even death isn't final, who knew?
“'Euthanasia' is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it."
~Dr. John Seward's diary dated 25 October. Wow, Bram Stoker, let us readers know what you really think! Mrs. Mina Harker has been bitten by Dracula and fed his blood, destining her to become a vampire upon her death. But, Mina, our Victorian role model, has made the group promise to kill her if she ever fully changes.
Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to do? – Bram Stoker. Dracula, Chapter 1. As Jonathan Harker leaves his hotel to go to Castle Dracula, the hotel owner’s wife warns him against visiting the Count on that particular day.
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