The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
EMILY BRONTEWorthless as wither’d weeds.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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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.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever 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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTE