Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTEYes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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 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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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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