Charlotte Quotes

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

I can’t sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You’re always gone too soon.

You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

… and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought, because I think he could have beautiful thoughts, and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.

Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.

The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten.

Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve, —Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

You’re different, Elli. You’re unlike anyone else, it’s because of that…’‘How can a Prince, how can someone like you be seen with me? I get it, Evan, its fine.’‘It’s because of that, I want you.

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

I died for a short while the first time we met

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

You weresunrise to merise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You werewater to medeep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

You weremoon's eye to mepull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass, which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love.

But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.

As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change.

Books aren't just booksthey're a completely different worldin the palm of your hands

I’m fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time.

If you really care about Charlotte, don't be afraid to tell her. Believe me, it will hurt her a lot more not hearing the words than it will hurt you to say them.

He that is low need fear no fall.

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be, Your attraction to me must in some way lack, Such a pity to spend time on thee.

Human feelings are queer things -- I am much happier -- black-leading the stove's -- making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.

It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

I wish I lived in your world, where it's sunshine and puppies all the time.

Ah, such a good pretty one.' There was a pause, 'You even got yourself dressed up.