I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTEI’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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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 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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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