Random words of the Brontë sisters

 

“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
      ― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more easily asked than answered frequently occurs viz: How have I improved the past year and with [what] good intentions do I view the dawn of its successor?”
     ― Charlotte Brontë, Lettere

Here pause: pause at once. There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let ir be their to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life.
     ― Charlotte Brontë, Lettere

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world; but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sun will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain, the impalpable principle of life and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature.”
     ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is 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.”
     ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre