Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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 can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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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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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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