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.
EMILY BRONTETreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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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 am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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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?
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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.
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