Quotes from Emily Bronte
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
- Emily Bronte
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep ?without identity. and never care how rain may steep, ?or snow may cover me —
- Emily Bronte
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive." "No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall," he returned.
- Emily Bronte
Oh! not for them, should we despair, The grave is drear, but they are not there; Their dust is mingled with the sod, Their happy souls are gone to God!
- Emily Bronte
And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?
- Emily Bronte
It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.
- Emily Bronte
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?
- Emily Bronte
You said I killed you, haunt me then! …Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you
- Emily Bronte
We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. a
- Emily Bronte
For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!
- Emily Bronte
I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My souls bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.
- Emily Bronte
He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.
- Emily Bronte