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.
EMILY BRONTEThough earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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’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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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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