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!
Emily Brontë
Related Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot... EMILY BRONTE Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T... EMILY BRONTë May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - ... EMILY BRONTë And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as ... EMILY BRONTë You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know tha... EMILY BRONTE Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I cannot live with someone who can't live without me. NADINE GORDIMER As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or dis... LEO TOLSTOY Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to li... ARTHUR MILLER I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh... JOHN KEBLE Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why ev... TUPAC SHAKUR Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart? KRISTIN CASHORE I cannot live with someone who can't live without me. NADINE GORDIMER I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Love is not just saying,that i can not live without you!Love is that even if i can not live with you... PRASAD If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me DOUG BOYD If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give... DAVID ELKINS Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go where you go and live where you live. Your people... BIBLE I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. JUDY GARLAND Only you can make this right. Show me, not with words, but with action, that this is what you want a... KELLY KNIGHT InTerNet aLwAys Has beEn My eVeR lOvinG FrIend WhO hAs NEvEr bEtrAyed mE EvER aNd tHe OnLy oNe WhOm ... NISHI DE SILVA The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this worl... ALEX CAMPBELL I choose to be me, for now, and forever. I will live my life for me and by me. This is my life and I... AVINA CELESTE I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life. RAINBOW ROWELL She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Sca... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation . Say it so tha... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO When I start to get tired asking about you, and lose interest with what you do... that's when i stop... MARICEL CONSOLACION what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul." -Edward Culle... STEPHENIE MEYER My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And ... DWYANE WADE The statement "I can not live without you" is simply ludicrous. One is able to live without that cer... DUY NGUYEN I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I w... KATRINA KAIF As much as you annoy me, I cannot live without your company. EMILY O'SHEA I know now that it would be better for me to leave and find a team to play for. I can't live without... ADRIAN MUTU I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me. TOBA BETA All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out w... JELLO BIAFRA I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I... CHUCK PALAHNIUK O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything bu... GEORGE MACDONALD I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life. ELAINE PAGELS Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have en... BETHANY HAMILTON I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ... VINCENT VAN GOGH The saying "I cannot live without you" is mostly a courtship language,but inside marriage it then be... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I saw something in you that I couldn't live without. I chose you, inside of me, and you chose me. It... SHELLY CRANE I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering... VINCENT VAN GOGH I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my l... JOSE SARAMAGO You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you ... EMILY BRONTë I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it. BOB THAVES Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am ... GASTON LEROUX Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I hav... JOHN GREEN I know how you like to be asked and not told. But I'm not asking you to marry me...I'm telling you t... COLLEEN HOOVER Plato was the first to instil this idea that the soul can live without the body but the body cannot ... FATHER MARK MONTEBLLO He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you.... J.A. ANUM You think your life belongs to you? Tenar gave me my life. That's why I have to live, so that I can ... GORO MIYAZAKI What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend sugges... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in t... ALBERT EINSTEIN I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I l... AYN RAND It wouldn't really do me no good. You can be bitter and do something stupid. But you've got to live,... ARTHUR M. MUMPHREY I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhe... NICHOLAS SPARKS I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. TOM STOPPARD “Death do not disturb me, I have no fear for death. I have died thousands of time in past. My conc... DR. SHAILESH THAKER Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without. SHANNON L. ALDER My family expect me to fail in life; they expect me that I will not become anyone in live. They expe... TEMITOPE OWOSELA Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and not... WALT WHITMAN From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, ... V.C. ANDREWS This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. O... CHARLES YU I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only thing I can see to give me a life sentence is for my fam... JOSEPH P. SMITH She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE When I got out of the movie, I had four text messages from Augustus. Tell me my copy is m... JOHN GREEN Religion is not something that you or I can touch. Religion is the worship of God—therefore a matt... MATTHEW KELLY I live well with very little things but not without my dignity RUI M. I have a backyard (where) my kids can play. They are not allowed on the side or front of my house wi... CARA SCHLUSSEL I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I ... ERIN MORGENSTERN I find no peace, and all my war is done, I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice; I fl... THOMAS WYATT I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my w... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. AARON MCGRUDER It’s not the belief that I can do that limits me: it is the belief that I cannot do. I must stop d... AVINA CELESTE Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, le... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It's not a question of it being important to me; it is me. It is the essence of everything that I am... FRANK TURNER Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morni... MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God wou... JOHNNY CASH Atheists can live without God but they cannot live without water, food and air, which were created b... тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it fright... E.L. JAMES It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to ... RANATA SUZUKI If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, b... THOMAS MERTON I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare... JOHN DONNE It's like a separate body part to me, you can ask anyone in my school, they've never seen me not wit... ALVIN FRANCO Without you, I will still be me, just that I will have no souls to express to; so when oneself is no... MAGGIEGUE Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for ... SARAH MCLACHLAN Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to cho... THERESE OF LISIEUX I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my exp... TUCKER MAX I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man! LANA TURNER I commend my soul to any god that can find it. TERRY PRATCHETT Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. CAROL BURNETT I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I&... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. You have become my own personal demon. You haunt me, tempt me, drive me mad with wanting you, and I ... KRISTINA DOUGLAS Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without ... CLAUDE MONET It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Nobody and nothing can influence to my faith.
For me faith is a permanent staying with God and in Go... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas... KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
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"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o... CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it ... ANNE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus CHARLOTTE BRONTë I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ... ANNE BRONTë You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take... ANNE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sea... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in othe... ANNE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat... ANNE BRONTë Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ... ANNE BRONTë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o... ANNE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort... CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charm... ANNE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the... CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you lik... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë