“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Expectations, plans, Disappointment
“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Heartbroken, Left Behind
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: beauty, wishes, Exterior
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Independent, Respect, Friendless
“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Hate, Anger
“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Living, Life, Survival
“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Missing You, Thoughts, one-sided
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Freedom, Free, Independence
“I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, expression, Words
“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, amazon.comTagged: Fighting, strength, Brave
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Hard Work, Effort, laziness
“But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Sadness, Crying, smiling
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: hopes, fears, opportunities
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Sisters, Siblings, Family
“Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Perfection, worship, kindness
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Sensitive, Insecure, Closed Off
“She is hard to guide any way but her own.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Independent, Guidance, On Her Own
“We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: God, Merciful, Incomprehensible
“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Crying, upset, Tears
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: poor, Poverty, Christian
“Children can feel, but they cannot analyze 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 Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Children, Feeling, emotions
“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Listening, Speaking, Engaged
“It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Hard Work, Effort, Success
“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, Happiness, romance
“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: eating, Drinking, depressed
“He was the first to recognize me, and to love what he saw.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, romance