Charlotte Bronte Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

The shadows are as important as the light.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

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

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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

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

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Look twice before you leap.

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Misery generates hate.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.