Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTEHeaven 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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