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!
EMILY BRONTEBe 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!
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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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 am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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