The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

Topics: Being Alone Quotes, Being Single Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Single Life Quotes

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain...

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain...

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead...

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit...

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly...

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly...