Emily Brontë Quotes

“Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!”
― Emily Brontë

“we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.”
― Emily Brontë

“It is a poor conclusion, is it not?’ he observed, having brooded awhile on the scene he had just witnessed: ‘an absurd termination to my violent exertions? I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished! My old enemies have not beaten me; now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives: I could do it; and none could hinder me. But where is the use? I don’t care for striking: I can’t take the trouble to raise my hand! That sounds as if I had been labouring the whole time only to exhibit a fine trait of magnanimity. It is far from being the case: I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.'Nelly, there is a strange change approaching; I'm in its shadow at present. I take so little interest in my daily life that I hardly remember to eat and drink. Those two who have left the room are the only objects which retain a distinct material appearance to me; and that appearance causes me pain, amounting to agony. About HER I won't speak; and I don't desire to think; but I earnestly wish she were invisible: her presence invokes only maddening sensations. HE moves me differently: and yet if I could do it without seeming insane, I'd never see him again! You'll perhaps think me rather inclined to become so,' he added, making an effort to smile, 'if I try to describe the thousand forms of past associations and ideas he awakens or embodies. But you'll not talk of what I tell you; and my mind is so eternally secluded in itself, it is tempting at last to turn it out to another.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I remember looking on those two sad, earnest, shadowed faces, and wondering wether I could trace the mysterious expression which is said to foretell an early death. I had some fond superstitious hope that the column divided their fates from hers, who stood apart in the canvas, as in life she survived. I liked to see that the bright side of the pillar was towards her - that the light in the picture fell on her; I might more truly have sought in her presentment - nay, in her living face - for the sign of death - in her prime.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

“How do I yearn, how do I pine
For the time of flowers to come

Emily Brontë”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“False friends will launch their covert sneers;
True friends will wish me dead;
And I shall cause the bitterest tears
That you have ever shed.”
― Emily Brontë, Honour's Martyr

“Ve o an düş gören herkesin kendi devirlerindekileri düşlediğini geçirmiştim aklımdan. Antik Yunan uygarlığı kendi tanrılarının düşlerini kurdu. Emily Brontë çorak arazilerin.”
― Patti Smith, Devotion

“... surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of creation if I were entirely contained here? My greatest miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is 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 to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Brontë, Wulthering Heights

“You said I killed you — haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that! ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take on any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I, actually, never recognized the wuthering heights by a level of higher heights!!”
― Petra Hermans