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Emily Brontë Quotes: 20

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

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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.

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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!

    Wuthering Heights
  • I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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.

    Wuthering Heights
  • Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the 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!

    Wuthering Heights
  • She burned too bright for this world.

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

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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!

    Wuthering Heights
  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

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

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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.

    Wuthering Heights
  • Existence, after losing her, would be hell

    Wuthering Heights
  • 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?

    Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
  • Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

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

  • 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.

    Wuthering Heights
  • Pessoas orgulhosas criam grandes tristezas para si mesmas