Quotes from Emily Bronte

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.

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.

He is 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 we were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. He's always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Good words, I replied. But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!