Top 100 Emily Brontë Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë

2. “He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë

3. “She burned too bright for this world.”

— Emily Brontë

4. “I have dreamed 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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere...”

— Emily Brontë

8. “No coward soul is mine.”

— Emily Brontë

9. “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

10. “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

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11. “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”

— Emily Brontë

12. “I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

16. “If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”

— Emily Brontë

17. “I have to remind myself to breathe – almost to remind my heart to beat!”

— Emily Brontë

18. “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

19. “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

21. “The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.”

— Emily Brontë

22. “May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

24. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

— Emily Brontë

25. “Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”

— Emily Brontë

26. “Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.”

— Emily Brontë

27. “Nelly, I am Heathcliff! 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

28. “If rain drops were kisses, I’d send you showers. If hugs were seas, I’d send you oceans. And if love was a person I’d send you me! Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

30. “I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!”

— Emily Brontë

31. “I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.”

— Emily Brontë

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”

— Emily Brontë

37. “You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”

— Emily Brontë

38. “They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

41. “There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.”

— Emily Brontë

42. “In secret pleasure – secret tears This changeful life has slipped away.”

— Emily Brontë

43. “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

44. “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

— Emily Brontë

45. “Existence, after losing her, would be hell.”

— Emily Brontë

46. “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

47. “Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

50. “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