51 Charlotte Brontë Quotes About Life (LOVE)

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“A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
Charlotte Brontë

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — **Life** appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. — **Crying** does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. — There is no **happiness** like that of being **loved** by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed. — The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the **hopes**, the **dreams**, the pleasures, whose **charms** were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — I ask you to pass through life at my side – to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

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“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? 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 am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal — as we are!”
Charlotte Brontë

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

'I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die. I will be myself.' — ‘I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die. I will be myself.’

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. — 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**.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. — Men judge us by the **success** of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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. — **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.

“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
Charlotte Brontë

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

The shadows are as important as the light.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

“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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”
Charlotte Brontë

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

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“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.”
Charlotte Brontë