You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
EMILY BRONTEYou have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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 cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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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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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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She burned too bright for this world.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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