Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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Who has words at the right moment?
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
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... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.