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.
EMILY BRONTEOh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
EMILY BRONTE







