Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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
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
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
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
I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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