Terror made me cruel.
EMILY BRONTENay, 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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 entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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 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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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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