“Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quailAnd perish in your perishing unblest.And I have searched the highths and depths, the scopeOf all our universe, with desperate hopeTo find some solace for your wild unrest.”

“Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!”

“Do not let the hero in your soul perish...”

“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”

“I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.”

“My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.”