What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
EMILY BRONTEWondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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 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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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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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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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