I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
EMILY BRONTEThat is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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Terror made me cruel.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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