English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Charlotte Bronte Quotes

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

Charlotte Bronte

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad. Heywood Broun
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. Robert Musil
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Does dreaming of princesses serve a better purpose than..."
Does dreaming of princesses serve a better purpose than dreaming of the front door to the office? Fernando Pessoa
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say. Tyrone Power
After you have believed, you can enjoy salvation by feeling its heavenly influences, but to dream of getting a grasp of it by your own feelings is as foolish as to attempt to carry the sunlight in the palm of your hand or the breath of heaven between the lashes of your eyes. There is an essential absurdity in the whole affair. Charles Spurgeon
Margaret Atwood quote: "We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as..."
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood
Amanda Seyfried quote: "I love animals and they're very easy to look after when..."
I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead. Amanda Seyfried
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man..."
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kevin Richardson quote: "I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high..."
I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school. Kevin Richardson
Rupert Murdoch quote: "I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world."
I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. Rupert Murdoch
George Saunders quote: "Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'"
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' George Saunders
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. Woodrow Wilson
Herbie Hancock quote: "Jazz is about being in the moment."
Jazz is about being in the moment. Herbie Hancock
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices Virginia Woolf
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care. Algernon Charles Swinburne