Charlotte Bronte Life Quotations

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

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.

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns

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

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Look twice before you leap.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

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

Better to be without logic than without feeling.