Sheridan Le Fanu quotes

How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there. (Sheridan Le Fanu)
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. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
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. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
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 please, and laugh at locksmiths. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
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, but transparent. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
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, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
He has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge. (Sheridan Le Fanu)
Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu