Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Quotes

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.

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.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

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

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

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.

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

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.