No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
...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
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is… — Charlotte Bronte 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
![“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun…” quote by Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/312/charlotte-bronte-144_agony_i-thought-i-loved-him-when-he-went-away_147350.jpg)
