No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.
("Villette")
More Quotes from Charlotte Bronte:
One feelingturned to utter anguish,Is not my being's only aim;
When, lorn and loveless, life will languish,
But courage can revive the flame.
Charlotte Bronte
But you know very well you are thinking of another they, and that he is not thinking of you
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If thy love were like mine, how wild
Thy longings, even to pain,
For sunset soft, and moonlight mild,
To bring that hour again!
Charlotte Bronte
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?
Charlotte Bronte
I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest.
Charlotte Bronte
I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth,but i experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers and less withering dread of oppression. The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed, and the flame of resentment extinguished
Charlotte Bronte
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