...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Religion called – Angels beckoned – God commanded – life rolled together like a scroll – death's gates opening showed eternity beyond.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it - as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Her grave is in Brocklebridge Churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I perceive all this, and believe that you were born under my star. Yes, you were born under my star! Tremble! for… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“But soon I said to myself, “The Hope I am bemoaning suffered and made me suffer much: it did not die till… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Is that the summit of earthly happiness, the end of life - to love? I don't think it is. It may be… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The first woman’s breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence, the strength which… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There is one in this tribe too often miserable - a child bereaved of both parents. None cares for this child: she… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
