Dreams Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

— Charlotte Bronte

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

— Charlotte Bronte

“she is in a world of private dreams , not here with us !”

— Charlotte Brontë

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

— Charlotte Bronte

“that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision...If I could behold…

— Charlotte Brontë

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss…

— Charlotte Bronte

“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.”

— Charlotte Brontë

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Yet, when M. Paul sneered at me, I wanted to possess them more fully; his injustice stirred in me ambitious wishes—it imparted…

— Charlotte Brontë

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I…

— Charlotte Bronte

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms…

— Charlotte Bronte

My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and…

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Charlotte Brontë

“And who cares for imagination? Who does not think it a rather dangerous, senseless attribute, akin to weakness, perhaps partaking of frenzy…

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— 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

“Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in…

— Charlotte Bronte

“I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst…

— Charlotte Brontë

“By the clock of St Jean Baptiste, that dream remained scarce fifteen minutes--a brief space, but sufficing to wring my whole frame…

— Charlotte Brontë

“If Shirley were not an indolent, a reckless, an ignorant being, she would take a pen at such moments, or at least…

— Charlotte Brontë

“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed. I…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Mr. Rochester continued to be blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so…

— Charlotte Brontë