"The trouble is not that I am single……" — Charlotte Bronte
"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
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Charlotte Bronte
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315 Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte has 315 quotes on this site.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter…
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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More Companionship Quotes
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
— Octavia Butler
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
— Francesca Annis
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness…
— Grantland Rice
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the…
— Jack Kerouac
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
— Rita Hayworth
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
— Sherry Turkle
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
— Hosea Ballou
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
— Lew Wallace
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