My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
EMILY BRONTEAny relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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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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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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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