Charlotte Bronte Quotes

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Despair is part of love.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

Unhappiness was my god.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.