I’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.
EMILY BRONTEYes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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She burned too bright for this world.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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 despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
EMILY BRONTE