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

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

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

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

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

"Despair has its own calms."

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

"Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours."

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

"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."

"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 blood is the life!"

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring."

"There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA."

"I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me."

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

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

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

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

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

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

"Take me away from all this Death."

"We learn of great things by little experiences."

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

"Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope."

"Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?"

"I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths."

"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."

"There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely."

"The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it."

"Sleep has no place it can call its own."

"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart."

"It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import."

"Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read."

"And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."