Charlotte Bronte Quotes

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

Want is misery.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

There is no love without suffering.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

I lived and languished.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.