Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTEVain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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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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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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