Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
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My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.
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I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.