#heights

The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#wuthering-heights #melancholy

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me. ↗

— Jack Black

#any #atheist #feeling #fills #heights

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#down #forty #heights #look #pyramids

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#critique #depths #haven #heights #i

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights. ↗

— Kate Bush

#experiences #get #heights #i #into

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. ↗

— Albert Camus

#fill #happy #heart #heights #imagine

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#destroy #either #forces #heights #human

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#capabilities #good #heights #important #impossible

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#further #heights #reach #top

You need me to inspire you and remind you how wonderful you are. You need me to kiss you." He lowered his head and pressed his lips on her neck. "You need me to love you." "But more than that," he continued, "I need you. I need you to come home to. I need you to talk to and laugh with. I need you to love me back. ↗

— Kate Perry

#her #him #home #kate-perry #laugh