The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
EMILY BRONTEBut you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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