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Emily Bronte Quotes



Quotes by Emily Bronte - (19 quotes)

Emily Bronte - From the Aging category:

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)

Emily Bronte - From the Dreams category:

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Earth category:

Though earth and man were gone, / And suns and universes ceased to be, / And Thou were left alone, / Every existence would exist in Thee. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Ego category:

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Emotion category:

Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, / How could I seek the empty world again? (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Faith category:

No coward soul is mine, / No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; / I see Heaven's glories shine, / And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Happiness category:

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has not taste. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Journey category:

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Love category:

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Nature category:

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Obscurity category:

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Possessions category:

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Prayer category:

-Wuthering Heights, 1847
And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens... Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Procrastination category:

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Senses category:

Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Solitude category:

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Spirituality category:

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)

Emily Bronte - From the Tyranny category:

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. (Emily Bronte)

Emily Bronte - From the Vanity category:

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds. (Emily Bronte)