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 must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.

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.

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.

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

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