Jane Eyre Quotes

“Who blames me? Many, no doubt; and I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind’s eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it—and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me—because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction—because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation. I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram’s. But I was not jealous: or very rarely;—the nature of the pain I suffered could not be explained by that word. Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“She was very showy, but she was not genuine: she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her. Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adèle: pushing”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If Miss Ingram had been a good and noble woman, endowed with force, fervour, kindness, sense, I should have had one vital struggle with two tigers—jealousy and despair: then, my heart torn out and devoured, I should have admired her—acknowledged her excellence, and been quiet for the rest of my days:”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I will, in a few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and sweetest to man, keeps far away from you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage-with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it-the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling place.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The rain beat strongly against the pains, the wind blew tempestuously:" One lies there ", I thought," who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Whither will that spirit-now struggling to quit its material tenement-flit when at length released?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation. I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what is was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either. Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point., increasing in strength of attraction the nearer I came. The return to Thornfield was yet to be tried.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. Still bright on clouds of suffering dim Shines that soft, solemn joy.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You will never have green leaves more-never more see sea birds making nests and singing idyls in your boughs; the time of pleasure and love is over with you: but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Deep waters; the floods overflowed me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character.
-perfect concord is the result.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“ومثل أيّ عبدٍ ثائر استشعرتُ العزمَ، في يأسي البالغ، على المُجازفة بكلِّ شيء”
― شارلوت برونتي, Jane Eyre

“أهيمُ بك إلى حدٍّ يتعذّر عليّ معهُ أن أتملّقك، فلا تتملّقني”
― شارلوت برونتي, Jane Eyre

“Noil päevil ei näinud ma jumalat, sest ma nägin ainult inimest, kellest olin endale ebajumala teinud.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Elupäevad on mu meelest liiga lühikesed, et neid võiks pillata vaenu õhutamiseks või eksimuste loetlemiseks.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Peale selle võin nende tõekspidamiste alusel nii selgesti mõista kurjategijat ja ta süütegu: võin puhtsüdamlikult andestada esimesele, kuigi ma jälestan teist. Ka ei lase need tõekspidamised eales kättemaksul mu südamerahu eksitada, alandusel liiga sügavasti mind solvata, ülekohtul ilmaski mind liiga maha rusuda, — meelerahus käin ma oma elurada lõpuni.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Ükski naine maailmas pole oma elukaaslase hingele nii lähedal seisnud kui mina, sest ma olen otsekui liha tema lihast ja veri tema verest. Me ei väsi iial teineteise seltskonnast, nii nagu ei väsi meie südamed teineteisest, kuigi nad tuksuvad erinevas rinnas. Järelikult oleme me alati üheskoos. Olla koos — tähendab tunda end vabana nagu üksinduses ja rõõmsana nagu meeldivas seltskonnas. Kogu meie päev möödub vestluses ja meie vestlus pole midagi muud kui valjusti mõtlemine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Young ladies have a remarkable way of letting you know that they think you a “quiz” without actually saying the words.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Now, King Ahasuerus! What do I want with half your estate? Do you think I am a Jew usurer, seeking”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“No, no Jane! You must not go! No, I have touched you, heard you, felt the comfort of your presence, the sweetness of your consolation. I cannot give up those joys. I have little left in myself, I must have you. The world may laugh, may call me absurd, selfish, but it does not signify. My very soul demands you. It will be satisfied or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“My eyes were covered and closed: eddying darkness seemed to swim round me, and reflection came in as black and confused a flow. Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. I lay faint, longing to be dead. One idea only still throbbed life-like within me—a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Είχε όμως καταπιαστεί, αυτή τη στιγμή, μ' ένα πλάσμα οπλισμένο με το θάρρος της απελπισίας.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Τζέιν Έιρ

“Γιατί υπέφερα πάντα, γιατί ζούσα συνέχεια τρομαγμένη, γιατί ήμουν πάντα κατηγορούμενη, πάντα καταδικασμένη; Γιατί δε μπορούσα να τους αρέσω; Γιατί δεν είχα καταφέρει να επιτύχω ένα ευγκενικό αίσθημα για μένα από οποιονδήποτε;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Τζέιν Έιρ

“Αυτό είναι άδικο!" μου έλεγε η λογική μου. "Άδικο, άδικο" μα γιατί υπέφερα έτσι; Γιατί;
Το "γιατί" το κατάλαβα έπειτα από καιρό, όταν πια οι μεγάλες αυτές μέρες είχαν γίνει μακρινό παρελθόν. Ήμουν μια παράτονη νότα μέσα στο Γκάτεσηντ Χωλ. Δεν έμοιαζα με κανένα από τα πρόσωπα που ζούσαν εκεί. Δε μ'αγαπούσαν, η αλήθεια είναι όμως πως δεν τους αγαπούσα κι εγω. Δεν ήταν υποχρεωμένοι να μεταχειρίζοντα με στοργή ένα πλάσμα, που ήταν ανίκανο να νιώσει συμπάθεια, έστω για ένα από τα πρόσωπα του σπιτιού.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women just feel as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“«Mejor es comer hierbas con quienes nos aman que un buey con quienes nos odian».”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break—at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent—I am ever tender and true.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre