Jane Eyre Quotes

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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

I am no bird

A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!

All the room darkened and my heart again sank

Though I no longer presumed to have a conscience, I have never once lacked feelings.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed

the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.