Mina Murray Quotes

“We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

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

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

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”

“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.”

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

Mina, pray for my happiness.”

You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity.

I believe we forgot everything except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start.

“He is only a wreck of himself, and he does not remember anything that has happened to him for a long time past.”

‘Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to share my ignorance? Here is the book. Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know; unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.’

“He answered his ‘I will’ firmly and strongly. I could hardly speak; my heart was so full that even those words seemed to choke me. The dear sisters were so kind. Please God, I shall never, never forget them, nor the grave and sweet responsibilities I have taken upon me.”

“Well, my dear, what could I say? I could only tell him that I was the happiest woman in all the wide world, and that I had nothing to give him except myself, my life, and my trust, and that with these went my love and duty for all the days of my life.”

“My dear, please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises: a long day of sunshine, with no harsh wind, no forgetting duty, no distrust. I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be; but I do hope you will be always as happy as I am now.”

“She is dying. It will not be long now. It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, and we have promised him.”

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

“There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights. You will have happy life and good life, and your husband will be blessed in you.”

He was never so resolute, never so strong, never so full of volcanic energy, as at present.

We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big sorrowing man’s head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child.

“If a man’s esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine to-day.”

“I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it?”″

“Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart.

The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination.

“I didn’t know that she was here till she spoke; and she didn’t look the same. I don’t care for the pale people; I like them with lots of blood in them, and hers had all seemed to have run out. I didn’t think of it at the time; but when she went away I began to think, and it made me mad to know that He had been taking the life out of her.”

“Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy, and whom he may have most cause to fear.”

I felt the same vague terror which had come to me before and the same sense of some presence.

And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for a while; and shall be later on my companion and my helper.

What have I done to deserve such a fate, I who have tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my days.

“There are here some who would stand between you and death. You must not die. You must not die by any hand; but least of all by your own. Until the other, who has fouled your sweet life, is true dead you must not die; for if he is still with the quick Un-Dead, your death would make you even as he is. No, you must live! You must struggle and strive to live, though death would seem a boon unspeakable. You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril!

“I have no fear. Things have been as bad as they can be; and whatever may happen must have in it some element of hope or comfort.”

“Were death, or the fear of death, the only thing that stood in the way I would not shrink to die here, now, amidst the friends who love me. But death is not all.”

“Then I shall tell you plainly what I want, for there must be no doubtful matter in this connection between us now. You must promise me, one and all—even you, my beloved husband—that, should the time come, you will kill me.”

“When you shall be convinced that I am so changed that it is better that I die than I may live.

How can women help loving men when they are so earnest, and so true, and so brave!

His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend’s spirit has passed into him.