Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
EMILY BRONTEThoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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 old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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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.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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