Quotes from Emily Bronte

I have dreamt 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.

It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes

My great thought is in himself. 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 into a mighty stranger. I would not seem apart of it.

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.

But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!

I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.

Os serenos e generosos são apenas egoístas um pouco mais justos do que os tiranos – e a felicidade acabou quando as circunstâncias levaram ambos a perceber que os interesses de um não eram considerações importantes nos pensamentos do outro.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

and what does not recall her?  I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags!  In every cloud, in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day—I am surrounded with her image!  The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features—mock me with a resemblance.  The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

How she does stare! It's odd what a savage feeling I have to anything that seems afraid of me.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

Podrán sepultarme, si quieren, a doce pies de profundidad y hasta ponerme la iglesia encima, pero yo no me quedaré allí hasta que tú estés conmigo.

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

One hoped, and the other despaired; they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.

Trebao sam se tada znijiti krvlju, toliko je bio o?ajan bol moje žudnje... tolika strastvenost mojih molbi da je vidim barem na tren! Ali je nisam vidio.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

Is Heathcliff not here?' she demanded, pulling off her gloves, and displaying fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors.

I'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

Forget your anger, for she's hard to guide any way but her own.

In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.