--- title: "7 Truly love Quotes By Charlotte Bronte" description: "7 Truly love quotes by Charlotte Bronte. Plus more from Charlotte Bronte and more Truly love sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/charlotte-bronte-144_first-time_after-a-youth-and-manhood-passed-half-in_684217.jpg" --- > [“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/after-a-youth-and-manhood-passed-half-in-unutterable-misery-and-half/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/charlotte-bronte-144_first-time_after-a-youth-and-manhood-passed-half-in_684217.jpg) > [“No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don't love me I would rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/no-i-know-i-should-think-well-of-myself-but-that-is-not-enough-if/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/charlotte-bronte-144_love_no-i-know-i-should-think-well-of-myself_928626.jpg) > [I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-have-for-the-first-time-found-what-i-can-truly-love-i-have-found/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f60/charlotte-bronte-144_angel_i-have-for-the-first-time-found-what-i-c_1572563.jpg) > [I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-have-for-the-first-time-found-what-i-can-truly-love-i-have-found-2/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a00/charlotte-bronte-144_angel_i-have-for-the-first-time-found-what-i-c_1598955.jpg) > [“Are you in earnest? - Do you truly love me? - Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?' 'I do;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/are-you-in-earnest-do-you-truly-love-me-do-you-sincerely-wish-me-to/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/charlotte-bronte-144_marriage_are-you-in-earnest-do-you-truly-love-me_1721528.jpg) > [After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/after-a-youth-and-manhood-passed-half-in-unutterable-misery-and-half-2/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/charlotte-bronte-144_first-time_after-a-youth-and-manhood-passed-half-in_1990760.jpg) > [“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/look-here-to-gain-some-real-affection-from-you-or-miss-temple-or-any/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/charlotte-bronte-144_affection_look-here-to-gain-some-real-affection-fr_2458051.jpg) ## Other authors on Truly love ## More by Charlotte Bronte > [When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/when-we-are-struck-at-without-a-reason-we-should-strike-back-again/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/my-god-whose-son-as-on-this-night-took-on-him-the-form-of-man-and-for/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/a-deal-of-people-miss-are-for-trusting-all-to-providence-but-i-say/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/this-night-is-not-calm-the-equinox-still-struggles-in-its-storms-the/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/how-dare-i-mrs-reed-how-dare-i-because-it-is-the-truth-you-think-i/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/if-men-could-see-us-as-we-really-are-they-would-be-a-little-amazed/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/if-all-the-world-hated-you-and-believed-you-wicked-while-your-own/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/life-appears-to-me-too-short-to-be-spent-in-nursing-animosity-or/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/poverty-for-me-is-synonymous-with-degradation/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/when-his-first-born-was-put-into-his-arms-he-could-see-that-the-boy/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/talented-people-almost-always-know-full-well-the-excellence-that-is/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/not-one-spark-of-spirit-not-one-symptom-of-resistance-would-they-have/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/love-can-excuse-anything-except-meanness-but-meanness-kills-love/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-think-you-will-learn-to-be-natural-with-me-as-i-find-it-impossible/) [Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/you-are-no-ruin-sir-no-lighting-struck-tree-you-are-green-and/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/truly-love/charlotte-bronte/#itemlist", "name": "7 Truly love Quotes By Charlotte Bronte", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love-- I have found you. You are my sympathy-- my better self-- my good angel-- I am bound to you with a strong attachment. 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