Religion, superstition, and science

Quote

Character

Chapter

“God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters.”

Jonathan Harker

IV

“Is there fate amongst us still, sent down from the pagan world of old, that such things must be, and in such a way?”

Doctor Seward

XI

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Van Helsing

X

“The dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.”

Lucy Westenra

XI

“I heard a sort of howl like a dog’s, but more fierce and deeper.”

Lucy Westenra

XI

“To believe in things that you cannot.”

Van Helsing

XIV

“Your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced.”

Van Helsing

XIV

“It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explains not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”

Van Helsing

XIV

“You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear.”

Van Helsing

XIV

“If it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman or my faith as a Chistian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise”

Arthur Holmwood

XV

“No longer she is the devil’s Un-Dead. She is God’s true dead, whose soul is with Him!”

Van Helsing

XVI

“Tradition and superstition – are everything.”

Van Helsing

XVIII

“To us for ever are the gates of heaven shut; for who shall open them to us again?”

Van Helsing

XVIII

“Unclean! Unclean! Even the almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day.”

Mina Harker

XXII

“No longer she is the devil’s Un-Dead. She is God’s true dead, whose soul is with Him!”

Van Helsing

XVI

“And to superstition must we trust at the first; it was man’s faith in the early, and it have its root in faith still.”