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
altered changed colour dreams dreamt english-novelist gone life stayed wine
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 colour of my mind.
life death dying
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
hate voice hard-life
You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.
goal life-and-death soul
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
life soul heathcliff
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
hope short-life night
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
littles remember daily-life
I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
life clouds effort
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
love life dream
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.
admire charity giving
Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
beneath eternal love mind pleasure resembles rocks source visible
...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 then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...
coward coward-and-cowardice faith fear glories shines soul
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear
earth existence left man though universes
Though earth and man were gone, / And suns and universes ceased to be, / And Thou were left alone, / Every existence would exist in Thee.
afternoon half heath instead mind mud spend study wuthering yesterday
Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.