Emily Bronte Quotes - Page 2

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• He’s more myself than I am

  Emily Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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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.

  Emily Bronte

  Life And Death, Goal, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

  Emily Bronte

  Should, Existence, Notion

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

  Emily Bronte

  Dirty, Please

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• I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

  Emily Bronte

  Littles, Remember, Daily Life

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.597, Penguin

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• how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

  Emily Bronte

  Ice Water, Veins, Mines

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• I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Soul, Heathcliff

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

  Emily Bronte

  Inspirational, Girl, Women

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.456, Penguin

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• I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

  Emily Bronte

  Heart, My Heart

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.490, Penguin

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• You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

  Emily Bronte

  Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.436, Penguin

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• It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

  Emily Bronte

  People, Forgiving, Wicked

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.53

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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!

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Soulmate, Mad

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

  Emily Bronte

  Bending

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin

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• If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Years, Classic

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

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• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Death, Dying

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

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• You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

  Emily Bronte

  Care, Please, Hard

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.68

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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.

  Emily Bronte

  Silly, Want, Faculty

  "Wuthering Heights".

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• Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

  Emily Bronte

  Girl, Doors, Laughing

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.456, Penguin

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• Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!

  Emily Bronte

  Eye, Night, Sight

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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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?

  Emily Bronte

  Eye, Kissing, Hands

  Emily Bronte (2010). “Wuthering Heights”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

  Emily Bronte

  Tea, Temper, Effects

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.383, Penguin

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• Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

  Emily Bronte

  Poison, Moral, Virtuous

  Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.183, Adams Media

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• I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  Emily Bronte

  Wind, Sky, Breathing

  Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)

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• He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

  Emily Bronte

  Lying, Fall, Drunk

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Worthless as wither'd weeds.

  Emily Bronte

  Weed, Worthless

  Emily Bronte, “Last Lines”

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