Quotes from Emily Bronte
And yet a little longer speak, Calm this resentful mood; And while the savage heart grows meek, For other token do not seek, But let the tear upon my cheek Evince my gratitude!
- Emily Bronte
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
- Emily Bronte
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
- Emily Bronte
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
- Emily Bronte
The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her
- Emily Bronte
You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
- Emily Bronte
She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
- Emily Bronte
Mama never told me I had a father.
- Emily Bronte
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
- Emily Bronte
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
- Emily Bronte
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
- Emily Bronte
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
- Emily Bronte