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

“I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. ”

“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.”

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

““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?"”

““Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?"”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”