All Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Quotes
- 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… Conditions
- 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… All
- Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. Bed
- No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get… Brute
- Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh. Born
- You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know.… Always Selfish
- But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they… Dark
- Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?... Actually Admire
- I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of… All
- You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls… Afraid
- Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either. Death
- For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt… Acquiesced
- There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the… Among
- I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling,… All
- What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only,… All
- Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart… All
- But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Die
- but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another. Baffled