But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes — 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 Copy Share Image
“Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You both think I know not what,' said I. 'Have the goodness to make me as little the subject of your mutual… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what… — 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… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity, and so on: but they forget… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?… — 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
“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield - I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The incident had occurred and was gone for me: itwasan incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — 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