But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
EMILY BRONTEI’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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No coward soul is mine.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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 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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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