Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 July 1818
CityWest Yorkshire, England
forget-you forget existence
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
wall heart tears
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.
love soulmate mad
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 can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
eye tears despair
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
lonely inspire dreamer
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
made terror
Terror made me cruel.
life death dying
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
crush tyrants grind
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
girl heathers wish
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
joy common melancholy
Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
differences quality gold
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.
heart breathe my-heart
I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!
names my-sister hereafter
Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
heaven would-be miserable
If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.