Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEIf 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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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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