441 Quotes by Emily Brontë

... You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?

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)

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.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore -In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure.

The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, ' ''What, done already?'' 'On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners!

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

honest people don’t hide their deeds. (Nelly about Heathcliff, ch. X, p. 103)