Long Quotes by Emily Bronte

9 Long quotes by Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte's musings on longness echo her gothic lyricism and fierce emotion. The nine short lines give a quick, atmospheric taste of her poetic depth, ideal for a brief but evocative read.

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“It is a long fight, I wish it were over!”

Emily Brontë

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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

Emily Bronte

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“But he was too good to be thoroughly unhappy long.”

Emily Brontë

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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!

Emily Bronte

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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

Emily Bronte

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Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress…

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And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated…

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I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me?…

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He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my…

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The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most…

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“It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?”

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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

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Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are…

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“It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intense anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. Had it been…

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