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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I never told my love vocally still.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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 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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Terror made me cruel.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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