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Quotes About Suffering

She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.
~ Emily Bronte
Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?
~ Emily Bronte
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
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
~ Emily Bronte
However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.
~ Emily Bronte
O God!  It is a long fight; I wish it were over!
~ Emily Bronte
e se ama Edgar, e Edgar a ama a si. Parece tudo normal e fácil. Onde está a infelicidade? - Aqui! e aqui! - respondeu Catherine, batendo com uma mão na testa e a outra no peito.
~ Emily Bronte
I've known a hundred kinds of love; ?All made the loved one rue; And what is thine that it should prove ?Than other love, more true?
~ Emily Bronte
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
~ Emily Bronte
what misery laid on Heathcliff could content me, unless I have a hand in it?  I'd rather he suffered less, if I might cause his sufferings and he might know that I was the cause.  Oh, I owe him so much. 
~ Emily Bronte
Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty rises from your greater misery! You are miseable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you - nobody will cry for you, when you die! I wouldnt't be you!
~ Emily Bronte
You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that god or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. - Heathcliff
~ Emily Bronte
KeÅŸke seni elimde tutabilseydim, diye ac? ac? konuÅŸmaya devam etti. İkimiz ölünceye kadar! Ne çektiÄŸin umurumda deÄŸil! Niye ac? çekmeyecektin ki? Bak ben çekiyorum iÅŸte!
~ Emily Bronte
It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.
~ Emily Bronte
You said I killed you, haunt me then! …Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you
~ Emily Bronte
If God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I'd go to hell with joy
~ Emily Bronte
Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, 'That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her; I shall be sorry that I must leave them! Will you say so, Heathcliff?
~ Emily Bronte
Mr. Heathcliff you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.  You are miserable, are you not?  Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him?  Nobody loves you—nobody will cry for you when you die!  I wouldn't be you!
~ Emily Bronte
Take any form, haunt me, drive me crazy but never leave me in this abyss where I can not find you.
~ Emily Bronte
If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.
~ Emily Bronte
He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed
~ Emily Bronte
I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours ! How can I?
~ Emily Bronte
I felt that God had forsaken the stray sheep there to its own wicked wanderings, and an evil beast prowled between it and the fold, waiting his time to spring and destroy.
~ Emily Bronte
Be with me always, Take any form, Drive me mad, only don't leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you
~ Emily Bronte