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.
EMILY BRONTEThe night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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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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