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.
EMILY BRONTEIt’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Nay, 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.
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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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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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