Quotes by "Charlotte Brontë"
I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day amongst those days which never dawned, and will not set, an angel entered Hades â stood, shone, smiled, delivered a prophecy of conditional pardon, kindled a doubtful hope of bliss to come, not now, but at a day and hour unlooked for, revealed in his own glory and grandeur the height and compass of his promise: spoke thus â then towering, became a star, and vanished into his own Heaven. His legacy was suspense â a worse boon than despair.
A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwardâ that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time openâ predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: âI lie in the shadow of St. Paulâs.