The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
EMILY BRONTEThere 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with 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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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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’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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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Terror made me cruel.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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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