Peace Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the…

— Charlotte Bronte

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make…

— Charlotte Bronte

“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.”

— Charlotte Brontë

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday -…

— Charlotte Bronte

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace…

— Charlotte Brontë

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point,…

— Charlotte Bronte

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now…

— Charlotte Bronte

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must…

— Charlotte Bronte

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so…

— Charlotte Bronte

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Her eyes were the eyes of one who can remember; one whose childhood does not fade like a dream, nor whose youth…

— Charlotte Brontë

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my…

— Charlotte Bronte

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent…

— Charlotte Brontë

“A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most…

— Charlotte Brontë

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity;…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are…

— Charlotte Brontë