Sanity vs insanity

Quote

Character

Chapter

“Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted.”

Jonathan Harker

II

“Was she, or is she, mad; or what sort of horrible danger is it?”

Doctor Seward

XII

“Knowledge is stronger than memory.”

Van Helsing

X

“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

XIV

“Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself.”

Jonathan Harker

XIV

“The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!”

Jonathan Harker

II

“I have a dim half-remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing; darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant; and then long spells of oblivion, and the rising back to life as a diver coming up through a great press of water.”

Lucy Westenra

XI

“Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.”

Doctor Seward

XV

“Surely there must be some rational explanation of all these mysterious things.”

Doctor Seward

XV

“But now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense.”

Doctor Seward

XV

“At the moment he seemed as sane as any one I ever saw.”

Doctor Seward

XVII

“There is a method in his madness.”

Doctor Seward

VI

“That I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul.”

Renfield

XVIII

“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in

strait-waistcoats.”

Doctor Seward

XX

“I am at least sane.”

Van Helsing

XXVII

“It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths.”

Jonathan Harker

Closing