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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
Bram Stoker
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.
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.
Bram Stoker
And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.
Bram Stoker
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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 my helper.
Clasps his laps around minas throat, pieces her skin and drinks her blood. He then forces her into an act that binds her to the vampire for eternity
Bram Stoker
You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.
I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.
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