She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTEI 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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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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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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