The quotations of

Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet

1818–1848

18 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Friendship.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter VIIIn context
- Pride
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 colour of my mind.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Sleep
- Thinking
I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Nature
Not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Love
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. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Love
“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIn context
- Enemies
- Friendship
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIIn context
- Power
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
- Youth
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Life & Death
Be with me always⁠—take any form⁠—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XVIIn context
- Life & Death
- Love
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Enemies
- Morality
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XXXIVIn context
- Life & Death
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)In context
- Courage
- Faith
I’m now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IIIIn context
- Friendship
He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter VIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Religion

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