Patrick Branwell Brontë QUOTES

1 " In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this. "

2 " I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing. "

― Patrick Branwell Brontë

3 " Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art, "

― Patrick Branwell Brontë

4 " Backward I look upon my life,
And see one waste of storm and strife,
One wrack of sorrows, hopes, and pain,
Vanishing to arise again!
That life has moved through evening, where
Continual shadows veiled my sphere;
From youth's horizon upward rolled
To life's meridian, dark and cold. "

― Patrick Branwell Brontë

5 " In all my past life I have done nothing either great or good. "

― Patrick Branwell Brontë

6 " Life is a downward journey; all concur in saying it carries us downhill. "

― Patrick Branwell Brontë

7 " I sit, this evening, far away,
From all I used to know,
And nought reminds my soul to-day
Of happy long ago.

Unwelcome cares, unthought-of fears,
Around my room arise;
I seek for suns of former years
But clouds o'ercast my skies.

Yes—Memory, wherefore does thy voice
Bring old times back to view,
As thou wouldst bid me not rejoice
In thoughts and prospects new?

I'll thank thee, Memory, in the hour
When troubled thoughts are mine—
For thou, like suns in April's shower,
On shadowy scenes wilt shine.

I'll thank thee when approaching death
Would quench life's feeble ember,
For thou wouldst even renew my breath
With thy sweet word 'Remember'! "

― Patrick Branwell Brontë