Quotes from Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still

But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip — one's faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.