And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
EMILY BRONTEThe entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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 astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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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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