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.
EMILY BRONTEI cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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 have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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 is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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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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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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