Emily Bronte Quotes

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? – Emily Bronte

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. – Emily Bronte

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. – Emily Bronte

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

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands, she answered. Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer–but yours! How can I? – Emily Bronte

I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. – Emily Bronte

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it. – Emily Bronte

Honest folks are bound to pay what they agreed to when they sit down to make a bargain. Is n’t it flitting around here and there, stealing bits of other people’s leisure time for three shillings an hour quite wicked enough, without now and then pocketing the recompense they give you for their stolen time? – Emily Bronte

She burned too bright for this world. – Emily Bronte

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable. – Emily Bronte

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. – Emily Bronte

I wish I could hold you,’ she continued bitterly, ’till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do!’ – Emily Bronte

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. – Emily Bronte

Everybody knows what you are, Ellen: you’re a wicked slut! – Emily Bronte

If everything else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if everything else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. – Emily Bronte

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. – Emily Bronte

I cannot live without my soul! – Emily Bronte

I believe I have a heart; I cannot help it, and I believe whatever it is has urges too strong to be satisfied with being a world of affectionate impulses. – Emily Bronte

I should have been more strange, I must confess. But that you overwheedle me with stump speech about fancy heads, and your mom being displeased. – Emily Bronte

I have such faith in you. I feel as if you could save me from my fate, but I’m not worthy of you. If I can prove one thing, it will be that you were right all along, and I was a fool to doubt you, even for a moment. – Emily Bronte

I will show you how much I love you, and then, you go on, you leave me… But you leave me swept up in the arms of someone who is not you! Or in the arms of no one at all! – Emily Bronte

You said I killed you–haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! – Emily Bronte

God help the poor emigrant when he leaves the blessed land of his birth, and thinks that at last his wanderings are ended! – Emily Bronte

No sight so sad as that of a naughty child, he began, especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death? – Emily Bronte

I have a right to be what I like. I will pay any price to get what I want. – Emily Bronte

It’s not Mr. Heathcliff’s prejudice, Edgar, but yours. – Emily Bronte

Woe to anyone who tries to break this union! – Emily Bronte

Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! – Emily Bronte

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. – Emily Bronte

I only wish us never to be parted: and should a word of mine distress you hereafter, think I feel the same distress underground, and for my own sake, forgive me! – Emily Bronte

I’m mortal, and I’ll stay till I’m dead. – Emily Bronte

It is not to be an object of martyrdom, but a constant source of pleasure—only because I can make him so happy. – Emily Bronte

But I believe he wishes I would love him. – Emily Bronte

Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir? I’d give a great deal to know. – Emily Bronte

I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and treated as nicely as you are. – Emily Bronte

I have no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there not relinquish his eternal portion in hell, I’ll burn mine. – Emily Bronte

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands, she answered. Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer – but yours! How can I? – Emily Bronte

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. – Emily Bronte

Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! – Emily Bronte

Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us! You of your own will did it, I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. – Emily Bronte

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte

Hoping he will come further with me… – Emily Bronte

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. – Emily Bronte

But at the beginning of the twentieth century, scientists discovered forests had dark and silent roots. Do you think, dear reader, that they were surprised? They weren’t. They had stories of giant trees. They had stories of an energy running through the woods. They had stories of dark woods with silent, whispering roots. – Emily Bronte

Her eyes, which are so fine, so full of youth and light—so full at the present moment of curiosity. – Emily Bronte