Charlotte Bronte Dream Quotations

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream