Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

Topics: Memory Quotes, Youth Quotes

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

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...

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...

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...

Look twice before you leap.

Look twice before you leap.

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality...

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality...