Jane Eyre

Lines to Ponder · Jane Eyre

Single lines worth sitting with.

1. Line 01

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

2. Line 02

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

3. Line 03

   “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”

4. Line 04

   “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel.”

5. Line 05

   “I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.”

6. Line 06

   “Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”