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?
EMILY BRONTETime brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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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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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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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.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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