634 quotes found
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
“I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy - not as angels but as few are happy among...”
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existen...”
“Happiness is the curea cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.”
“[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.”
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent ...”
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
“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 try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all p...”
“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.”
“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”
“So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot...”
“~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.~Is he?~All boys are.~More than girls?~Very likely. Wise people say it i...”
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what ...”
“You are going, Jane?""I am going, sir.""You are leaving me?""Yes.""You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?...”
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
“Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be...”
