He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!'… — 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
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“At this crisis certain inventions in machinery were introduced into the staple manufactures of the north, which, greatly reducing the number of… — 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
“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — 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
“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if… — 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
“Life, however, was yet in my possession; with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities. The burden must be carried, and want… — 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
“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
“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It is always the way of events in this life...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.” — 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
