441 Quotes by Emily Brontë

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.

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

...I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow...

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.

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

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

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

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

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