Emily Bronte Quotes

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

I never told my love vocally still.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

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

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Worthless as wither'd weeds.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

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

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

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

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?

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

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