Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph 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.

Curiosity

Girl

Passion

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.

Dark

Dream

Wall

But to die as lovers may – to die together, so that they may live together.

Lovers

May

Together

Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die–die, sweetly die–into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

Heart

Law

Thinking

For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.

Girl

Morning

Sweet

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.

Anxiety

Long

Lying

I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

Helping

Spirit

Trust Me

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

Character

Knows

Mines

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.

Dense

Effort

Remembers Everything

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.

Lust

Secret

Soul

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Angel

Anxiety

Butterfly

Character

Children

Curiosity

Dark

Dense

Dream

Effort

Expectations

Flesh

Form

Girl

Goes On

Good Night

Hate

Heart

Helping

Journey

Knows

Law

Life And Death

Littles

Loneliness

Long

Love

Lovers

Lust

Lying

Matter

May

Men

Mines

Morning

Mysterious

Passion

Remembers Everything

Secret

Selfish

Sight

Solitude

Sometimes

Sorrow

Soul

Spirit

Study

Summer

Sweet

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Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph 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.

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.

But to die as lovers may – to die together, so that they may live together.

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.

I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

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

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.

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.

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