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.
EMILY BRONTEA messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Terror made me cruel.
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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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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
EMILY BRONTE