I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

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

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

There are not many things that are more powerful than love.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

The old are in a second childhood.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.