"Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die……" — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed."
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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18 Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu has 18 quotes on this site.
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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a…
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Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside…
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No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute…
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Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in…
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You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous…
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But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits…
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Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire…
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I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others,…
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You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that…
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Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
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For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon…
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There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great…
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I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks…
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
— Michele Bachmann
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
— Antonio Banderas
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a…
— Lynda Barry
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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