Charlotte Bronte Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Angel, Men

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, October 16, 1847.

• Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Light, Nurse

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.177, Xist Publishing

• I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!

  Charlotte Bronte

  I Love Him, Night, Light

• God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. 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?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Waiting, Crowns, Flesh

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

• I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Silence, Waiting

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Jane (Ch. 28), October 16, 1847.

• I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Waiting, Sincerity, Theory

  "Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived". p. 235. Book by Helene Moglen, 1984.

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