Jane Eyre Quotes

“God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me would, I begin to think, be almost equivalent to committing suicide.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Those trembling stars… they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ... I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation. . .”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre