Wuthering Heights Quotes By Emily Brontë

“I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
-Emily Brontë quotes by Wuthering Heights

“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 lightening, or frost from fire.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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

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

“We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have dreamt 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 Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. 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!”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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, Wuthering Heights

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes trees.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“My love for Heatcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and 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, Wuthering Heights

“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.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“And I pray one prayer–I repeat it till my tongue stiffens–Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! 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, Wuthering Heights

“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, Wuthering Heights

“I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
-Emily Brontë quotes by Wuthering Heights

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Because you are not fit to go there,” I answered. “All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?” was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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

“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: I should not seem a part of it.
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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, Wuthering Heights

“Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.”
-Emily Brontë,Wuthering Heights

“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton’s attachment more than mine. 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. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?”
-Emily Brontë quotes by Wuthering Heights