Top 100 Emily Brontë Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

53. “Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”

— Emily Brontë

54. “Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!”

— Emily Brontë

55. “Terror made me cruel.”

— Emily Brontë

56. “Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”

— Emily Brontë

57. “I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”

— Emily Brontë

58. “Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?”

— Emily Brontë

59. “Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.”

— Emily Brontë

60. “You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.”

— Emily Brontë

61. “Kiss me again, but 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

62. “I cannot love thee; thou ’rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!”

— Emily Brontë

63. “I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”

— Emily Brontë

64. “Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

66. “Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

— Emily Brontë

67. “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

68. “I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

— Emily Brontë

69. “A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”

— Emily Brontë

70. “It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.”

— Emily Brontë

71. “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 no broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.”

— Emily Brontë

72. “I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.”

— Emily Brontë

73. “And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?”

— Emily Brontë

74. “Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.”

— Emily Brontë

75. “That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.”

— Emily Brontë

76. “Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.”

— Emily Brontë

77. “You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!”

— Emily Brontë

78. “I never told my love vocally still.”

— Emily Brontë

79. “I will walk where my own nature would be leading.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

81. “He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”

— Emily Brontë

82. “If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.”

— Emily Brontë

83. “He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.”

— Emily Brontë

84. “Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.”

— Emily Brontë

85. “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.”

— Emily Brontë

86. “Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing on my lips.”

— Emily Brontë

87. “You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.”

— Emily Brontë

88. “But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.”

— Emily Brontë

89. “Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!”

— Emily Brontë

90. “Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?”

— Emily Brontë

91. “I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”

— Emily Brontë

92. “I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.”

— Emily Brontë

93. “How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”

— Emily Brontë

94. “Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss’s neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?”

— Emily Brontë

95. “Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?”

— Emily Brontë

96. “I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.”

— Emily Brontë

97. “Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!”

— Emily Brontë

98. “And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.”

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

100. “He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.”

— Emily Brontë