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97 Inspirational Quotes By Emily Bronte, The Author Of Wuthering Heights

Famous As: Novelist
Born On: July 30, 1818
Died On: December 19, 1848
Born In: Thornton, West Yorkshire
Died At Age: 30
If you ever have laid hands on a copy of ‘Wuthering Heights’, you would know the brilliance of Emily Bronte. A powerfully talented writer, novelist and poet, Bronte was a well-known English poet who gave English literature the classic novel, ‘Wuthering Heights’. Born to a clergyman father, Emily was the third of the four children born to Senior Bronte. Much like her sisters, Emily enjoyed writing poetry and novels. She often wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Much of Emily’s earliest works revolve around the fictional world, Gondal, an imaginary place and inhabitants that she created in her books. Bronte’s big leap came in 1847 with her defining work, ‘Wuthering Heights’. Interestingly, the book gained limelight only after Bronte’s death and developed a reputation of a masterpiece. Bronte’s genius as a prolific writer can also be seen in her quotes that in few words convey a deeper meaning and thought. They cover a wide variety of subjects’ right from love, friendship, faith, living, death, spirituality and so on. Check this write-up and find some of the best quotes by Emily Bronte.    
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He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë
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.

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
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 can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

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 can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

Emily Brontë
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Emily Brontë
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.

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 Brontë
Terror made me cruel . . .

Terror made me cruel . . .

Emily Brontë
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Emily Brontë
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.

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.

Emily Brontë
She burned too bright for this world.

She burned too bright for this world.

Emily Brontë
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Emily Brontë
I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

Emily Brontë
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

Emily Brontë
Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Emily Brontë
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Emily Brontë
Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

Emily Brontë
He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.

He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë
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.

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 Brontë
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.

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 Brontë
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Emily Brontë
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

Emily Brontë
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.

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 Brontë
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Brontë
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

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

Emily Brontë
Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Emily Brontë
I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

Emily Brontë
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

Emily Brontë
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.

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.

Emily Brontë
Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?

Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?

Emily Brontë
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

Emily Brontë
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

Emily Brontë
If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

Emily Brontë
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Emily Brontë
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! 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?

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! 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?

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

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

Emily Brontë
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.

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.

Emily Brontë
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?

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?

Emily Brontë
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Emily Brontë
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.

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.

Emily Brontë
May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emily Brontë
Existence, after losing her, would be hell

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

Emily Brontë
How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.

How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.

Emily Brontë
You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

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

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

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

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

Emily Brontë
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.

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.

Emily Brontë
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'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 Brontë
You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emily Brontë
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?

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?

Emily Brontë
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

Emily Brontë
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Brontë
They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Emily Brontë
And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

Emily Brontë
Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Emily Brontë
But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

Emily Brontë
In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

Emily Brontë
Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes...

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes...

Emily Brontë
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

Emily Brontë
Good words,

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.

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

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

Emily Brontë
You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Emily Brontë
I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.

I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.

Emily Brontë
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!

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!

Emily Brontë
He’s more myself than I am

He’s more myself than I am

Emily Brontë
Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

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

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

Emily Brontë
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?

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?

Emily Brontë
People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

Emily Brontë
Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Emily Brontë
Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

Emily Brontë
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

Emily Brontë
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

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

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

Emily Brontë
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

Emily Brontë
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

Emily Brontë
I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .

I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .

Emily Brontë
The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

Emily Brontë
Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.

Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.

Emily Brontë
I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

Emily Brontë
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.

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 Brontë
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

Emily Brontë
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Emily Brontë
I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

Emily Brontë
I am Heathcliff!

I am Heathcliff!

Emily Brontë
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

Emily Brontë
Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Emily Brontë
Shall Earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now?

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

Emily Brontë
You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!

You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!

Emily Brontë
I never told my love vocally still.

I never told my love vocally still.

Emily Brontë
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

Emily Brontë
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.

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
It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Emily Brontë