“Religion called – Angels beckoned – God commanded – life rolled together like a scroll – death's gates opening showed eternity beyond.” — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Don’t cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to… — Charlotte Brontë Confidence Copy Share Image
“Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry,' said Bessie…She might as well have said to the fire, ‘don’t burn!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Jane: "St John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes and a Grecian profile." Rochester:(Aside) "Damn him!"… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then one can… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. He had held me in awe, because he… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited… — Charlotte Bronte Fantastic Copy Share Image
“Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly,' I implored: 'let me be content with a temperate… — Charlotte Brontë Fountains Copy Share Image
“What have you been doing during my absence?' 'Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.' 'And getting a good deal paler than you… — Charlotte Brontë Absence Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find… — Charlotte Bronte Future life Copy Share Image
“Take it to your Maker - show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave - ask Him how you are to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I have told you, reader, that I had learned to love Mr. Rochester; I could not unlove him now, merely because I… — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and… — Charlotte Brontë Human soul Copy Share Image
“I ever wished to look as well as I could, and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit.… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“Such was the bridal-hour of Genius and Humanity. Who shall rehearse the tale of their after-union? Who shall depict its bliss and… — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Earth Copy Share Image
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday -… — Charlotte Bronte Calm Copy Share Image
“Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow?” — Charlotte Bronte Moon Copy Share Image
“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small… — Charlotte Brontë Agony Copy Share Image
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love.” — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to… — Charlotte Brontë Suffering 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 Bravery Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Heart Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte Adoration Copy Share Image
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes… — Charlotte Brontë Angel Copy Share Image
“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
