EMILY BRONTë QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

“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.”

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

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

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

“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”

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

“I’m tired of living underground. I’m letting myself fly.”

“Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“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 colour of my mind.”

“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I’m afraid I’d snap.” SELF HYPNOSIS QUOTES

“I have little left in myself—I must have you. The world may laugh—may call me absurd, selfish—but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”

“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.”

“How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide imperfections, whereas it’s the imperfections that make us most human.”

“Heathcliff, if I were you, I’d dismiss Catherine forever. Terminate all contact. Weaned her knowingly from everything that reminded her of you.”

“If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do now.”

“I’m seldom otherwise than happy, when watching in the presence of nature. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires; no noise disturbs the silence and peace of the secret hours. Sounds, if heard, are but dreamy, and melt into something musical and sweet, as soon as they cease to be articulate.”

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”

“Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist onto the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.”

“I’ll never love anyone like I love you. You’re mine, forever.”

“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches.”