Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
Emily Bront, Wuthering Heights.
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be w...”
“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”
“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”
“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”
“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as...”
“I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.”
“Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.”