Emily Brontë Quotes

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living

~ Emily Brontë

I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

~ Emily Brontë

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.

~ Emily Brontë

You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I won’t be miserable for you!

~ Emily Brontë

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,And even Despair was powerless to destroy,Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy;Then did I check the tears of useless passion,Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine;Sternly denied its burning wish to hastenDown to that tomb already more than mine!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?

~ Emily Brontë

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? 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.~Heathcliff

~ Emily Brontë

In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least – for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

~ Emily Brontë

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meFluttering from the autumn tree.I shall smile when wreaths of snowBlossom where the rose should grow;I shall sing when night’s decayUshers in a drearier day.

~ Emily Brontë

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

~ Emily Brontë

Worthless as wither'd weeds.

~ Emily Brontë

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

~ Emily Brontë

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.

~ Emily Brontë

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

~ Emily Brontë

I have dreamed 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.

~ Emily Brontë

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

~ Emily Brontë

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

~ Emily Brontë

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.

~ Emily Brontë

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

~ Emily Brontë

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

~ Emily Brontë