May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
EMILY BRONTECold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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 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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTE







