He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
EMILY BRONTEYou have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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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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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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There 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.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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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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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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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?
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