Quotes By Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.”

“Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,’ said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; ‘and people too; population shifts – there’s an old fellow, sir, they call Death.”

“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 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 structures.”

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