Emily Bronte Quotes
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What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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.
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He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.
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I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
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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.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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No coward soul is mine.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
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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!
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.