Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTEOh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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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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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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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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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE