But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — 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
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited… — Charlotte Bronte 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
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“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
But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel; I am bound to you by a strong attachment. I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Thus for the first, and perhaps only time in my life, I enjoyed the “giftie” of seeing myself as others see me.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“...[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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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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