Emily Brontë Quotes

I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...

In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by...

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears p...

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gon...

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forg...

She burned too bright for this world.

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...

Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have...

I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...

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

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised ...

He shall never know how I love him

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her...

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to ex...

He’s more myself than I am

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

... You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying...

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...

Hope Was but a timid friend;She sat without the grated den,Watching how my fate would tend,Even as s...

Riches I hold in light esteem,And love I laugh to scorn,And lust of fame was but a dreamThat vanishe...

The Old StoicRiches I hold in light esteem, And Love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dr...

I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,And not in paths of high morality,And not among the half-dis...

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;Once drinking ...

And I am weary of the anguishIncreasing winters bear;Weary to watch the spirit languishThrough years...

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,And even Despair was powerless to destroy,Then did ...

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meF...

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

LinesI die but when the grave shall pressThe heart so long endeared to theeWhen earthy cares no more...

THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they...

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;My outward sense is gone, my inward essence f...

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...

No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see heaven's glories shine...

When weary with the long day’s care,And earthly change from pain to pain,And lost, and ready to desp...

I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the othe...

She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;Nor did discern how all the...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every wor...

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into som...

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

Worthless as wither'd weeds.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they ha...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.

And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.

Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their result...

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas: they've gon...

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...

... He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where h...

May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a s...

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perv...

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.

Come in! come in !’ he sobbed.‘Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart’s darling! hear me thi...

... You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal t...

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am alwa...

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...

Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

... In the chamber of death... I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an a...

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...

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

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they hav...

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

... I love him... not because he's handsome... but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our ...

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...

You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...

And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as ...

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. ...

Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came s...

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...

I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it - and in breaking it, you have broken mine ... I f...

All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises ...

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the u...

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated a...

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.