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.
EMILY BRONTEYou know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
EMILY BRONTE