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.
EMILY BRONTEYou know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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 understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE