“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — 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
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte 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 Bronte 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
“...and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour… — 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
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stream will be… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Heathcliff, if I were you, I’d go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog. The world is surely… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The first woman’s breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence, the strength which… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to continue hating anyone for along time. We all have faults, but the time will come soon when… — Charlotte Brontë 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 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
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“...you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your… — 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
“Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and… — 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 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
“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
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
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in 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
“Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may.” “Then you will… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“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
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
