It is no secret that Charlotte Bronte was a genius writer. What is less known, however, is the story of her remarkable life. This blog post will explore the fascinating quotes compilation of Charlotte Bronte, from her early childhood years to her tragic death.
We are glad to present you the most interesting Happiness, Love, Feelings, Human Beings, Life, World, Heart quotes from Charlotte Bronte, and much more.
You are human and fallible. — Charlotte Bronte
You mocking changeling–fairy–born and human–bred! — Charlotte Bronte
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being’s eye has failed to greet mine. — Charlotte Bronte
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. — Charlotte Bronte
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by Feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. — Charlotte Bronte
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. — Charlotte Bronte
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. — Charlotte Brontë
Remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. — Charlotte Bronte
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. — Charlotte Bronte
Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,’ he answered; ‘and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it. — Emily BrontĂ«
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life–no true home–nothing to be dearer to me than myself? — Charlotte Bronte
Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning. — Charlotte Bronte
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. — Charlotte Bronte
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single–handed. — Charlotte Bronte
I ask you to pass through life at my side–to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist best known for Jane Eyre , the story of an independent young governess who overcomes hardships while remaining true to her principles.
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But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! — Charlotte Bronte
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Brontë
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Brontë
O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Bronte
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. — Charlotte Bronte
God did not give me my life to throw it away. — Charlotte Bronte
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte
But solitude is sadness.’ ‘Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart–break. — Charlotte Bronte
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. — Charlotte Bronte
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! — Emily Brontë
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives–the life of thought, and that of reality. — Charlotte Bronte
M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always–fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. — Charlotte Brontë
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. — Emily BrontĂ«
Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me. — Emily Brontë
On the contrary, I’m a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. — Charlotte Bronte
She burned too bright for this world. — Emily Brontë
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. — Charlotte Bronte
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. — Charlotte Bronte
The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her. — Emily Brontë
I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost. — Charlotte Bronte
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. — Charlotte Bronte
She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world. — Emily Brontë
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere. — Charlotte Bronte
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. — Charlotte Bronte
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! — Emily Brontë
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. — Charlotte Bronte
I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart. — Charlotte Bronte
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. — Charlotte Bronte
There’s no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There’s such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one’s heart. — Charlotte Bronte
I have not broken your heart–you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. — Charlotte Bronte
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. — Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë was one of six children. Her two eldest sisters died when she was young.
She had a brother named Patrick Branwell and two sisters, Emily and Anne, who were also novelists.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed. — Charlotte Bronte
I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.’ ‘Station! Station!––your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter. — Charlotte Bronte
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. — Charlotte Bronte
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand–they only. Know this at last. — Charlotte Bronte
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. — Charlotte Bronte
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations. — Charlotte Bronte
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. — Emily Brontë
The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart–ease. — Charlotte Bronte
Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. — Charlotte Bronte
It would not be wicked to love me.’ ‘It would to obey you. — Charlotte Bronte
I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered–and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.’–Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will,’ I said at last, ‘you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God’s, and be at peace. — Charlotte Bronte
He made me love him without looking at me. — Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. — Charlotte Bronte
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. — Charlotte Bronte
I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. — Charlotte Bronte
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw. — Charlotte Bronte
Her father, Patrick Brontë, was an Anglican clergyman. He moved his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820.
When they weren’t away at school, the Brontë children learned and played there, writing and telling romantic tales for one another and inventing imaginative games played out at home or on the desolate moors.
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You–you strange–you almost unearthly thing!–I love as my own flesh. You–poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are–I entreat to accept me as a husband. — Charlotte Bronte
I don’t call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don’t flatter me. — Charlotte Bronte
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. — Emily BrontĂ«
He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. — Emily BrontĂ«
Little Jane’s love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. — Charlotte Bronte
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. — Charlotte Bronte
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love––I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte
He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same. — Emily BrontĂ«
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest––blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. — Charlotte Bronte
If you don’t love another living soul, then you’ll never be disappointed. — Charlotte Bronte
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. — Charlotte Bronte
Well had Solomon said,’Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. — Charlotte Bronte
Alas! never had I loved him so well! — Charlotte Bronte
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! — Charlotte Bronte
Make my happiness––I will make yours. — Charlotte Bronte
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. — Charlotte Bronte
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. — Charlotte Bronte
In 1824 Charlotte attended Clergy Daughters’ School in Lancashire.
Her experiences there, including harsh discipline and terrible food, influenced the portrayal of Lowood Institution in Jane Eyre.
In 1842 Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels as pupils to improve their French and acquire some German.
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. — Charlotte Bronte
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. — Charlotte Bronte
You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death! — Emily Brontë
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world–the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other. — Charlotte Bronte
It strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death. — Charlotte Bronte
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? — Charlotte Bronte
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you. — Charlotte Bronte
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red–room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. — Charlotte Bronte
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him. — Emily Brontë
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. — Charlotte Bronte
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. — Charlotte Bronte
