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.
EMILY BRONTEHow cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
EMILY BRONTE