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 BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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 am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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