Sheridan Le Fanu quotes

Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer, renowned for his mastery of Gothic and supernatural fiction. His works, including "Carmilla" and "Uncle Silas," significantly influenced the development of modern horror literature. He became a central figure in Victorian ghost story tradition and helped shape the genre for future generations. Here are 13 of his quotes:

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.

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.

Sheridan Le Fanu

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

Sheridan Le Fanu

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

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, and laugh at locksmiths.

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 transparent.

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.

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; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Sheridan Le Fanu

He has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Girls are caterpillars while 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 structure.

Sheridan Le Fanu

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.

Sheridan Le Fanu