Quotes by 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!”

“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!”

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

“...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because hes handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...”

“...my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - hes always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...”

“If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is so dumb,And will not let me sleep.”

“Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.”

“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other persons strength.”

“Man looks in the abyss, theres nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

“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?”

“Honest people dont hide their deeds.”

“I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.”

Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?

A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Worthless as witherd weeds.

Ill walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.

Ive dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas: theyve gone through and through me like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.

A person who has not done one half his days work by ten o clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

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.