You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when th…

- 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

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

- Joseph 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; b…

- Joseph 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 transp…

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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 woun…

- Joseph 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…

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come …

- 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 who…

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu