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.
EMILY BRONTEThe tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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 can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE