Emily Brontë Quotes
Emily Brontë Quotes
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
3724If 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.
3754 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 can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
1095 If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
3869 If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
3687 A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
4442 it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world
4218 And I pray one prayer-I repeat it till my tongue stiffens-Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you-haunt me, then!...Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
3800 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.
2518 Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.
4253 You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
4541 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 no 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.
2469 She burned too bright for this world.
2370 Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
1116 And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
2492 Existence, after losing her, would be hell
1956 He’s more myself than I am
4158 I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter-the Eternity they have entered-where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
3568 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?
3678 Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
1030 The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.
4552 No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see heaven's glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear
3986 The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her
3423 The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
3140 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.
3895 When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!
1876 Take my books away, and I should be desperate!
4135 Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.
4836 Shall earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now?
Since passion may not fire thee,
Shall nature cease to bow?
2431 I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
3153 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 color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.
4546 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.
1752 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?
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