Love and Passion Quotes in Jane Eyre

Nature must be gladsome when I was so happy.

"Soon to be Jane Rochester," he added: "in four weeks, Janet; not a day more. Do you hear that?"

I suppose your love will effervesce in six months, or less. I have observed in books written by men, that period assigned as the farthest to which a husband's ardour extends.

Well, I feigned courtship of Miss Ingram, because I wished to render you as madly in love with me as I was with you; and I knew jealousy would be the best ally I could call in for the furtherance of that end.

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

I could not, sir: no words could tell you what I feel. I wish this present hour would never end: who knows with what fate the next may come charged?

Bigamy is an ugly word!—I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,—perhaps the last.

My nerves vibrated to those low-spoken words as they had never vibrated to thunder—my blood felt their subtle violence as it had never felt frost or fire; but I was collected, and in no danger of swooning.

"Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added, "Farewell for ever!"

Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.