Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“All my life was awake and astir in my frame...and he I was not to array myself to meet.” — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.” — 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
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — 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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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 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
“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 believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold.… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“Of all things, herself seemed to herself the centre,--a small, forgotten atom of life, a spark of soul emitted inadvertent from the… — 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
“...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
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. — Charlotte Bronte 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
“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling,… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“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
“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
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
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