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.
EMILY BRONTELook on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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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!
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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 tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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?
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Terror made me cruel.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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