Jane Eyre Quotes

I wrote to him; I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood.

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.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

Sir, it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.

"That is my wife," said he. "Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am ever to know—such are the endearments which are to solace my leisure hours!"

The marriage cannot go on: I declare the existence of an impediment.

It simply consists in the existence of a previous marriage. Mr. Rochester has a wife now living.

Mr. Rochester, I must leave you.

No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it.

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.