Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
EMILY BRONTEMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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