Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTEHereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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