Life Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

Remorse is the poison of life.

— Charlotte Bronte

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

— Charlotte Bronte

“Everything in life seems unreal.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

— Charlotte Bronte

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

— Charlotte Bronte

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

— Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

— Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

— Charlotte Bronte

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

— Charlotte Bronte

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than…

— Charlotte Bronte

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

— Charlotte Bronte

“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.”

— Charlotte Brontë

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

— Charlotte Bronte

“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“You both think I know not what,' said I. 'Have the goodness to make me as little the subject of your mutual…

— Charlotte Bronte

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures as…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance…

— Charlotte Brontë

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself,…

— Charlotte Bronte

“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence…

— Charlotte Brontë

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is…

— Charlotte Bronte

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now…

— Charlotte Bronte

“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity, and so on: but they forget…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Her eyes were the eyes of one who can remember; one whose childhood does not fade like a dream, nor whose youth…

— Charlotte Brontë

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a…

— Charlotte Brontë

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my…

— Charlotte Bronte

“I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield - I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously…

— Charlotte Bronte

“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?…

— Charlotte Brontë

“With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find…

— Charlotte Bronte

“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.”

— Charlotte Brontë

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

— Charlotte Bronte