Life Quotes Quote by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"”

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

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

““It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”

“I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!”

““The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you”

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”

“You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.”

“I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.”