441 Quotes by Emily Brontë

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

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

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

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

I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.

No coward soul is mine.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

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.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!