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 BRONTEWondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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