dracula quotes

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


  Dracula said this to Jonathan Harker, commenting on the wolves which surround the castle.
• "We learn from failure, not from success!"


  Van Helsing said this to John Seward when they checking up on Lucy right before Arthur came in and contributed his efforts to the blood transfusion. Alerting John to keep an open mind to the causes of Lucy's illness.
• "There is a reason why all things are as they are."


  Dracula tells this to Jonathan Harker after Jonathan inquired if he is welcome to enter any room in the castle and Dracula says any that aren't locked.
• "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."


  Van Helsing directs this compliment at Mina for her cleverness and intelligence. Her recording of the discourse between Lucy and her shed more light on the whole situation for the professor.
• "Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring."


  Dracula welcoming Jonathan after he arrived at the castle.
• "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."


  Lucy says this after she was being preyed on by Dracula several times. She is ruminating about how sleep has become a thing of fear and pain instead of solace and rest. Right after Van Helsing instated garlic within her room.
• "Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker"


  Van Helsing says this to Dr. Seward about how you should not remain in the rigid mindset that is rational science. Just because there's something that can't be explained by science doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
• "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!"


  Jonathan says this to himself as he prepares for bed on the first night of his stay in Dracula's castle. Jonathan's western European mindset blinds him to the superstition of the east and renders him completely oblivious to the supernatural elements that happen around him.
• "I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot."


  Van Helsing directs this statement at his past student, Dr. Seward, to get him to see for himself that the cause of Mina's sudden degradation of health is not within the scope of science to diagnose.
• "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."


  Jonathan says this the morning he wakes up after the day before where he witnessed the mother of the child which Dracula had stolen from her being eaten by the wolves called by Dracula.
• "How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it."


  Mina says this to John Seward for accompanying her while she listens to his phonographic accounts starting from his broken heart when Lucy rejected him.
• "Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings."


  Dr. Seward says this at the end of day when Lucy's funeral service was completed. He witnessed Van Helsing burst into hysterics and explain how he laughs seemingly at the wrong times but has compassion for the tragicomical.
• "No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart..."


  Quincey says this to Mina after she comforted Arthur in his time of need, to give a shoulder for Arthur to cry out all the stress and sadness he had bottled up inside and offered to do the same for him.
• "Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."


  Van Helsing says this to reassure that what Mina has read in Jonathan's diary is not a subject of his or her imagination and that she need not be afraid of being laughed at.
• "Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast)"


  One of the passengers of the carriage that Jonathan had taken to get to Dracula's carriage that would take him to the castle said this to the driver of Dracula's carriage that came to pick up Jonathan. Jonathan's carriage arrived an hour earlier as to obviate his going to Dracula's castle but weirdly enough, the expected carriage also arrived at that same time.
• "I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats."


  Dr. Seward says this often, sometimes in other variations, that show how fantastical the situation they're in: with vampires and such, would seem in their time. This madness and insanity threatens to invade their society.
• "Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable."


  Mina says this in regards to Lucy's heartfelt condolences given concerning Jonathan's whereabouts as Mina hasn't heard from him in a long time.
• "I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him."


  Lucy says this to Mina in their correspondence through letters as Lucy reveals that she has received three proposals in a day. She wishes that she could simply marry all three of them as she has been emotionally gratified by each of them.
• "Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours."


  Jonathan says this to Van Helsing after Van Helsing asked whether Jonathan was really alright as he was declared sick by his wife just a day ago. Jonathan replied that much of his sickness had been self-doubt. He didn't even know if he could trust his own senses. But when Van Helsing confirmed that his experiences were not fabrications of his mind, his indecisiveness was removed.
• "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."


  Said by Dr. Seward regarding Mina's involvement with the work they're doing to rid the world of Dracula. This statement summarizes the Victorian view of women as fragile creatures that submit to the authority of men.
• "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."


  Van Helsing says this to his protege, John Seward, in hopes that this would get his eyes to open and his mind to wander away from the compact thinking that the science community often causes its members to adopt. Van Helsing believes that the scientifi outlook concerns itself with rationality but leaves any aspect of spirituality.
• "There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.

  And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture

  Then lapped the white, sharp teeth.

  Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited. "


  This is in the journal of Jonathan Harker which he kept throughout his journey and stay at Dracula's castle. This is a depiction of when Jonathan Harker wandered around the castle and forced entry into a room where he lay to rest by the moonlight. He was greeted by dust that turned into the shape of three women. Their sexually dominance enticed him yet repulsed him at the same time, societal standards ostracized these types of women. But repressed, basic instincts, a wandering mind, and a curiosity for the new is what attracted Jonathan.
• "No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves."


  Dr. Seward says this after he takes the role for supplying the blood to Lucy for the second blood transfusion.
• "The blood is the life!"


  Renfield says this as he laps up Dr. Seward's blood that had pooled on the floor of the study.
• "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."


  Jonathan says this after he demanded to leave on June 29th. Dracula grants his wish but as the door was lowered, wolves had gathered at the doorway and Jonathan realizes that Dracula does not mean this sincerely.
• "Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it."


  Dr. Seward says this in regards to what he considers the future killing of Mina if she ever completes the transformation to be a vampire, a blessing to her as she would be redeemed in the eye of God and allowed to go into kingdom come as with the case of Lucy.
• "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 says this to Mina right before the storm of the century. He is comforted by the thought that he has lived a full life and that God will come for him when the time is right. If there's one thing in this world that is certain, it is death.
• "There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."


  Van Helsing says this after his demand that he be allowed to cut Lucy's head off. He wants Arthur to be open to the idea that the supernatural may be at work here and that he is not just doing this on a whim.
• "There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA."


  Van Helsing says this near the final battle after he had dealt with the three weird sisters. He then proceeds to lay a wafer in Dracula's tomb and render the entire castle such that it will no longer permit entrance for the Dracula.
• "This man belongs to me, I want him!"

  Dracula says this to the weird sisters after they made a move on Jonathan. Dracula forbids the weird sisters from touching him until after Dracula is through with Jonathan.
• "I have been so long master

  that I would be master still, or at least that none other

  should be master of me."

  Dracula says this to Jonathan as he elucidates on how his foreignness would make him stick out like a sore thumb if he were to go to England.
• "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."

  Mina's says this as she playfully gives Van Helsing her short hand diary containing her conversations with Lucy though knowing that he can't read it. She wants to build up suspense.
• "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."


  The reporter says this as Bersicker, the wolf, comes back to its cage in the zoo seemingly of its own free will.
• "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."


  Van Helsing uses this to praise Mina. She has the intelligence uncharacteristic of a woman but she willingly submits herself to the men around her.
• "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?"


  Lucy says this in regards to her rejection of Quincey, one of the men that proposed to her.
• "Sleep has no place it can call its own"


  Mina says this as she is being hypnotized by Van Helsing to reveal Dracula's location at that present time.
• "Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope."


  Lucy says this to Mina in her letter talking about the three proposals that she has received that day.
• "Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. "


  Van Helsing praises Mina for recording the last few months in shorthand that way it is preserved.
• "And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."

  Jonathan says this at a wooden desk thinking about the medieval times where a lady may've sat where he sat writing a love letter.
• "With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow...

  Some of the...Oh my god...my god

  What have I done?"

  Mina says this after her traumatic vampire's "baptism of blood". She is asked to recount the details by Van Helsing. The scene has correlations to rape but the gender roles seem to be switched. Dracula is some perversion of a mother feeding a babe.