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 BRONTEAnd, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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