Better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London during his lifetime Bram Stoker is known the world over for his creation of Dracula, the original literary vampire.
Born on the 8th November 1847 in Ireland Bram Stoker was bedridden, sickly and frequently at death’s door and would not stand on his own until the age of seven when his mysterious illness abated and he began attending school where he excelled. After graduating Trinity College, Dublin in 1870 Stoker would become the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail and it is then that he would begin writing with his first novel “The Crystal Cup” published by the London Society in 1872. With his epistolary Dracula published in 1897 Bram Stoker became the Godfather of Vampire Fiction and spawned a whole new category of monster for readers to fear and fawn over and from this and other works we have chosen 8 Brilliantly Apt Bram Stoker Quotes for you to enjoy.
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
“… the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.”
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
“Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?”
“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.”
“Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912 after suffering a series of strokes; his ashes along with those of his son are kept in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium.
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