The vampire has haunted our stories for more than two centuries, and still we cannot look away.
From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Anne Rice’s tortured immortals and the sparkling lovers of Twilight, the vampire stands for desire, danger and the dream of living forever.
This collection gathers 78 Vampire Quotes from novels, films and television, with short captions for Halloween posts and cards.
So light a candle, lock the windows, and let’s meet the creatures of the night.
16 Famous Vampire Quotes from Dracula

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
Count Dracula
I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.
Count Dracula
Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!
Count Dracula
The blood is the life!
Count Dracula
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Bram Stoker
We learn from failure, not from success!
Professor Van Helsing
I want you to believe… to believe in things that you cannot.
Professor Van Helsing

There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Bram Stoker
I never drink… wine.
Count Dracula, Dracula (1931)
I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome.
Count Dracula, Dracula (1958)
Once I had a wife. Her name was Elisabeta. She killed herself.
Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
I have been so long master that I would be master still — or at least that none other should be master of me.
Count Dracula
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.
Bram Stoker
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?
Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
I have crossed oceans of time to find you.
Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
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.
Jonathan Harker
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16 Vampire Quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we.
Lestat
The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that finally kills us.
Lestat
I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
Louis
We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
Lestat
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?
Lestat
Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires.
Louis
You will never grow old, and you will never die.
Lestat

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise.
Louis
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil.
Louis
Killing is no ordinary act. One doesn’t simply glut oneself on blood.
Louis
I assume I need no introduction.
Lestat
The world was a tomb to me, a graveyard full of broken statues.
Louis
You are beautiful, my friend, luminous and brilliant in your darkness.
Armand
I am the Vampire Lestat. I’m immortal, more or less.
Lestat
Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Louis
Be my companion, Louis. Be all the beautiful things you are, and be them without apology. For all eternity.
Lestat
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16 Vampire Quotes from Movies and TV

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Edward Cullen, Twilight
I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
Bella Swan, Twilight
Death is peaceful, easy. Life is harder.
Bella Swan, Twilight
I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.
Edward Cullen, Twilight
You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.
Edward Cullen, Twilight
What a stupid lamb.
Bella Swan, Twilight
If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.
David, The Lost Boys
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.
Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In every generation there is a chosen one.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hello, brother.
Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries
You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure, and even a little danger.
Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries
I do believe in killing the messenger.
Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries
Is this your wife? What a lovely throat.
Count Orlok, Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping! There is another world beneath it, the real world.
Blade, Blade (1998)
I don’t say ‘blah, blah, blah’!
Count Dracula, Hotel Transylvania
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15 Short Vampire Quotes and Captions

Love at first bite.
Unknown
Fangs for the memories.
Unknown
Bite me.
Unknown
I’m dead tired.
Unknown
Forever young, forever thirsty.
Unknown
I only come out at night.
Unknown
The moon is my sun, the night is my day.
Unknown

I don’t sparkle, I bite.
Unknown
Life sucks, and then you’re a vampire.
Unknown
Suck it up, buttercup.
Unknown
Once bitten, forever smitten.
Unknown
Kiss me, I’m a vampire.
Unknown
I’m not a morning person. I’m a midnight person.
Unknown
The night belongs to us.
Unknown
Every sunset is a new beginning.
Unknown
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15 Vampire Quotes on Love, Night and Immortality

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.
Carmilla, Carmilla (1872)
I have been in love with no one, and never shall.
Carmilla, Carmilla (1872)
But first, on earth as vampire sent, thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent.
Lord Byron, The Giaour
You can’t kill what’s already dead.
Unknown
Immortality is a lonely business.
Unknown
The past never dies. Neither do I.
Unknown
I have lived a thousand lives and loved in every one.
Unknown

We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life.
Armand, Interview with the Vampire
My love is eternal, just like my thirst.
Unknown
Eternally yours, eternally thirsty.
Unknown
Some people are afraid of the dark. I am the dark.
Unknown
I don’t need garlic. I need blood.
Unknown
I woke up like this — dead.
Unknown
The sun sets, and I begin to live.
Unknown
Love never dies. Neither do vampires.
Unknown
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Keep the vampire quote that bit deepest close at hand, and share it the next time the night calls. Some stories never die — and neither, it seems, do vampires.












