4 quotations linked to Remembrance — Emily Brontë by or associated with Emily Brontë, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Grief across years, memory, winter and spring, new hopes, endurance and learning how life can continue after joy has changed.
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“Other desires and other hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”
New desires and hopes can enter life without necessarily betraying the person who is remembered, allowing continuation and fidelity to coexist.
Source note: “Remembrance,” Project Gutenberg #1019. The speaker is negotiating loyalty to a lost beloved rather than announcing a universal timetable for moving on.
“Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers After such years of change and suffering!”
Remembering after long change and suffering is presented as a form of fidelity, showing that grief can alter across time without making the earlier bond unreal.
Source note: “Remembrance,” Project Gutenberg #1019. The poem’s speaker is reflecting on a long-dead beloved within a literary lyric.
“Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.”
The poem measures bereavement through fifteen winters turning into spring, making seasonal change a visible clock for grief that has lasted across years.
Source note: “Remembrance,” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846); Project Gutenberg #1019. The line belongs to a dramatic lyric voice and is not biographical evidence by itself.
“Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.”
The speaker describes learning to sustain life after joy itself no longer provides the support it once did, making adaptation an explicit result of suffering.
Source note: “Remembrance,” Project Gutenberg #1019. The line follows the collapse of earlier dreams and is literary reflection on endurance, not a prescription to avoid joy or support.