Quotes from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
“I
can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.
I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born
with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be
withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
“I
have now been married ten years. 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. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am:
ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no
weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than
we each do the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms;
consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at
once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all
day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible
thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is
devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is
the result.”
“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.”
"I
desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me
discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it
agitated me to pain sometimes.”
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