Emily Bronte
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?Collection: Friendship
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Chance
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Society
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.Collection: Dreams
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.Collection: Sad
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.Collection: Home
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.Collection: Nature
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Terror made me cruel.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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.
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.Collection: Would Be
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.Collection: Tyrants
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.Collection: Fall
She burned too bright for this world.Collection: World
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.Collection: People
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.Collection: Men
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.Collection: Enemy
They forgot everything the minute they were together again.Collection: Together Again
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.Collection: Inspirational
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.Collection: Would Be
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.Collection: Life
You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.Collection: Forgive Me
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.Collection: Wall
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.Collection: 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.Collection: Life And Death
I have fled my country and gone to the heather.Collection: Country
I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.Collection: Cat
And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.Collection: Cheer
I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!Collection: Dirty
I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.Collection: Littles
how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boilingCollection: Ice Water
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.Collection: Inspirational
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.Collection: Heart
I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!Collection: Heart
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!Collection: Love
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!Collection: Life
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.Collection: Bending
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.Collection: People
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.Collection: Love
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.Collection: Care
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.Collection: Silly
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?Collection: Girl
Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!Collection: Eye