Emily Bronte

Novelist

1818-07-30 – 1848-12-19

Quotes by Emily Bronte

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

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• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

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

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• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

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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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• 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.

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

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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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• 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.

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

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• Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

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