As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream. — 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 Copy Share Image
“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were the eyes of one who can remember; one whose childhood does not fade like a dream, nor whose youth… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“…that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“And who cares for imagination? Who does not think it a rather dangerous, senseless attribute, akin to weakness, perhaps partaking of frenzy… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“If Shirley were not an indolent, a reckless, an ignorant being, she would take a pen at such moments, or at least… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rochester continued to be blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed. I… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“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 Image
