Quotes by Emily Brontë

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

“Worthless as wither'd weeds.”

“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.”

“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“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 color of my mind.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“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 w...”

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My ...”

“You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yoursel...”