Emily Bronte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.
-- Emily Bronte

#Lying #Fall #Drunk
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
-- Emily Bronte

#Love #Years #Classic
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
-- Emily Bronte

#Honesty #Reality #People
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
-- Emily Bronte

#Work #Silence #Effort
I have dreamed 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.
-- Emily Bronte

#Love #Life #Dream
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
-- Emily Bronte

#Love #Anniversary #Romantic
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
-- Emily Bronte

#Fall #Autumn #Tree
My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
-- Emily Bronte

#Rocks #Delight #Littles
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! 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.
-- Emily Bronte

#Love #Mind #Pleasure
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
-- Emily Bronte

#Enemy #Violence #Resorts
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 Bronte

#Love #Romantic #Loss
She burned too bright for this world.
-- Emily Bronte

#World #This World #Burned
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...
-- Emily Bronte

#Soul #Storm #Coward
No coward soul is mine.
-- Emily Bronte

#Adventure #Soul #Coward
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
-- Emily Bronte

#Should #Existence #Notion
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
-- Emily Bronte

#Inspirational #Girl #Women
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
-- Emily Bronte

#Heart #Ugly #Faces
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
-- Emily Bronte

#Country #Men #Solitude
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.
-- Emily Bronte

#Care #Please
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
-- Emily Bronte

#Running #Work #Sleep
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
-- Emily Bronte

#Pride #People #Sorrow
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
-- Emily Bronte

#Bending
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
-- Emily Bronte

#Sweet #Maturity #Forgiving
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.
-- Emily Bronte

#Memories #Hate #Despise
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
-- Emily Bronte

#Country #Blow #Wind

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