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

Emily Brontë Quotes

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

— Emily Brontë

Terror made me cruel.

— Emily Brontë

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

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

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— Emily Brontë

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

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

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

— Emily Brontë

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

— Emily Brontë

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

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

— Emily Brontë

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I never told my love vocally still.

— Emily Brontë

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

— Emily Brontë

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