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Quotes from Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

1816–1855 England

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33 quotes

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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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.

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The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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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.

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School-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies — such was what I knew of existence.

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The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

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It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

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I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

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Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

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God did not give me my life to throw away.

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

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I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

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It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.

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What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

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By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

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I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

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It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charlotte Brontë (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.