Quotes from Emily Bronte

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

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

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

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.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day! Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree...

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

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

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. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.