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Emily Brontë
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“All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee.”
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“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?”
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“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
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“I cannot live without my life!”
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“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same ...”
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“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a source of little visible delight, but necessary. 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 ...”
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“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
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“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: / It vexes me to choose another guide ...”
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“No coward soul is mine ...”
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“Yet my heart loves December's smile / As much as July's golden beam; / Then let us sit and watch the while / The blue ice curdling on the stream.”
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“The night is darkening around me ...”
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“Sleep brings no joy to me, / Remembrance never dies ...”
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“I dreamt one dark and stormy night / When winter winds were wild ...”
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“Summer skies will come again, / But thou wilt not be there.”
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“O transient voyager of heaven! / O silent sign of winter skies!”
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“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
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“If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now.”
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“I gazed upon the cloudless moon, / And loved her all the night, / Till morning came and radiant noon, / And I forgot her light --”
Emily Brontë, English writer, poet
(1818 - 1848)
Emily Jane Brontë sometimes used the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Anne Brontë used Acton Bell, and Charlotte Brontë used Currer Bell.