More From Charlotte Bronte
- "Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years."
- "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
- "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
More In Death
- "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."― Joseph Stalin
- "The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that – rather than just think about it – it’s crucial that you do today what you want to do."― Robin Gibb
- "The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."― Florence Nightingale