Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“I love you better now, when I can really be useful to you, than I did in your state of proud independence, when you disdained every part but that of the giver and protector.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“because,' he said, 'I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you- especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Nella sua vita futura le capiterà spesso di essere scelta come confidente dei segreti altrui. Le persone le si apriranno spontaneamente, come ho fatto io, perché lei non è fatta per parlare di sé, ma per ascoltare quel che dicono gli altri... perché avvertiranno che non ascolta disprezzando la loro indiscrezione, ma con simpatia istintiva, non meno consolante e incoraggiante perché delicata nelle sue manifestazioni.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Human beings must love something.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Viver assim entre o agrado geral, embora agrado de gente do povo, é como sentarmo-nos ao sol sereno e doce: sentimentos de íntima serenidade florescem sob os seus raios.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Good-night, my—" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, sensations and excitements, awaited those who has the courage to go forth into its expanse to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils”
― Charlotte Brontë

“And it is you, spirit - with will and energy and virtue and purity - that I want; not alone your brittle frame”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“At this period in my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.  I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Mentre la porta della strada si richiudeva, un improvviso stupore per il mio modo perverso di agire mi colpì come uno schiaffo. Avevo capito fin da principio che ero io colei che cercava, e non provavo forse anch’io il desiderio di vederlo? Che cosa, dunque, mi aveva trascinato via? Che cosa mi aveva rapito lontano da lui? Aveva qualcosa da dire: stava per dirmela; il mio orecchio era teso con tutti i suoi nervi per ascoltarla, eppure avevo reso io stessa impossibile quella confidenza. Mentre agognavo di ascoltare e di consolare, pur credendo che ascoltare e consolare fossero azioni insperabili, ecco che, non appena ne era giunta improvvisa e piena l’occasione l’avevo evitata come avrei evitato una freccia scagliata contro la mia vita. Ebbene, la mia folle inconseguenza aveva avuto il suo premio. Invece del conforto, della soddisfazione che avrei potuto certamente conquistare – fossi riuscita soltanto a domare quel panico che mi soffocava, rimanendo salda per due minuti soli –, ecco il mortale nulla, il buio dubbio, la tristissima incertezza. Portai con me sul mio cuscino questi tesori e trascorsi la notte a contarli e ricontarli.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer - the Futur so much brighter?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.” “How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?” “How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back—roughly and violently thrust me back—into the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, ‘Have mercy! Have mercy, Aunt Reed!’ And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. You are deceitful!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We can burst the bonds which chain us,
Which cold human hands have wrought,
And where none shall dare restrain us
We can meet again, in thought.

So there's no use in weeping,
Bear a cheerful spirit still;
Never doubt that Fate is keeping
Future good for present ill!”
― Charlotte Bronte

“I loved him very much – more than I could trust myself to say – more than words had power to express.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Conventionality is not morality.  Self-righteousness is not religion.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Your will shall decide your destiny”
― Charlotte Brontë

“All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to try to win any one’s favour?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“Él no pretendía comprender a las mujeres ni compararlas con los hombres: pertenecían a una categoría de existencia distinta, seguramente muy inferior; una esposa no podía ser compañera de su marido y mucho menos su confidente, y mucho menos su sostén.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“¿cree que puedo gozar de esta gran alegría sin amargármela con el pensamiento de que otra mujer sufre lo que yo sufría antes?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“O erro traz o remorso e o remorso é o veneno da existência.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I had had no communication by letter or message with the outer world: school-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies—such was what I knew of existence. And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: “Then,” I cried, half desperate, “grant me at least a new servitude!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“Chi è riservato spesso ha bisogno di una franca discussione dei suoi sentimenti e dei suoi dolori più delle persone espansive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?” What unutterable pathos was in his voice! How hard it was to reiterate firmly, “I am going.” “Jane!” “Mr. Rochester!” “Withdraw, then,—I consent; but remember, you leave me here in anguish. Go up to your own room; think over all I have said, and, Jane, cast a glance on my sufferings—think of me.” 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. Then came a deep, strong sob.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. That feature too is propitious.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“غیر عادی وقتی از حد می گذرد، عادی می شود”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre