Charlotte Bronte Quotes

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

People should just let me be.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I can be on my own.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.