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Love6 quotes
I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse · 1904Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. — Hermann Hesse · 1919I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Being in love3 quotes
I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Authenticity2 quotes
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse · 1919No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that-one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Home2 quotes
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. — Charles Dickens · 1861One never reaches home... But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Life2 quotes
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens · 1850Adversity1 quote
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott · 1868Appearance vs. reality1 quote
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861Bad decisions1 quote
I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. — Charles Dickens · 1860Being true to oneself1 quote
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse · 1919Broken heart1 quote
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. — Charles Dickens · 1861Character1 quote
There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. — Henry Fielding · 1749Childhood1 quote
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. — Charles Dickens · 1860Commitment1 quote
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861Connecting with others1 quote
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999Cowardice1 quote
I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. — Charles Dickens · 1860Crying1 quote
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. — Charles Dickens · 1861Curiosity1 quote
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. — Charles Dickens · 1860Custom and convention1 quote
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. — Charlotte Bronte · 1848Despising one's origins1 quote
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. — Charles Dickens · 1861Dignity1 quote
I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Doubt and skepticism1 quote
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861Education1 quote
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Effects of the past1 quote
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Evidence1 quote
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861Existential terror1 quote
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Facing oneself1 quote
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Falling in love1 quote
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Female independence1 quote
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Finding the one1 quote
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Forgiveness1 quote
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847