You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
EMILY BRONTEAnd, 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?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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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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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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