Charlotte Bronte Quotes about Sleep

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Charlotte Bronte

Writing, Sleep, Giving

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Charlotte Bronte

Sleep, Genuine, Tact

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.684, Everyman's Library

You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.

Charlotte Bronte

Love You, Sleep, Missing

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

Charlotte Bronte

Believe, Sleep, Night

Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.41, Harper Collins