# Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-sheridan-le-fanu/uncle-silas/there-comes-with.md)

Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-sheridan-le-fanu/uncle-silas/there-is-no-dealing.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [grief](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief.md)

> "The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-sheridan-le-fanu/uncle-silas/the-world-he-resumed.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [reputation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reputation.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-sheridan-le-fanu/uncle-silas/how-marvellously-lie.md)

Topics: [stress](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stress.md)