Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Quotes

#1. I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#2. There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#3. There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#4. Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#5. Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#6. Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu