Charlotte Bronte
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.Collection: Talking
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.Collection: One Day
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.Collection: Brother
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.Collection: Mean
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.Collection: Lapses
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.Collection: Pain
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.Collection: Eye
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.Collection: Spring
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?Collection: Inexperience
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.Collection: Men
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!Collection: Force
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?Collection: Sweet
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.Collection: Thinking
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.Collection: Break Up
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.Collection: Heartbreak
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.Collection: May
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.Collection: Kindness
Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.Collection: Morning
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.Collection: Prayer
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.Collection: Advantage
I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.Collection: Dream
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.Collection: Selfish
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it’s expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it’s perils.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Firsts
The word book acted as a transient stimulus.Collection: Book
On the contrary, I’m a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.Collection: Country