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 BRONTETime brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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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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