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 BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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