What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
EMILY BRONTECold 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?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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