Quotes from Emily Bronte

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Los soberbios no hacen más que dañarse a sí mismos.

Nella mia vita ho fatto sogni che sono rimasti dentro di me per sempre, e hanno trasformato il mio modo di pensare. Sono entrati a far parte di me, come il vino quando si mescola all'acqua, e hanno cambiato il colore dei miei pensieri.

Lo que más me hastía es esta maltrecha prisión. Ya estoy harta de mi encierro. Siento ansia de poder escaparme a aquel mundo espléndido, y de estar siempre allí. No quiero vislumbrarlo vagamente entre un velo de lágrimas, y suspirar por él tras los muros de un corazón lacerado; quiero estar realmente con él y en él.

He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.

It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.

e se ama Edgar, e Edgar a ama a si. Parece tudo normal e fácil. Onde está a infelicidade? - Aqui! e aqui! - respondeu Catherine, batendo com uma mão na testa e a outra no peito.

No demuestra buen corazon quien se burla de sus semejante por sus esfuerzos imperfectos

I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.

A traição e a violência são facas de dois gumes: ferem os que recorrem a elas por vezes mais fundo do que aos seus inimigos.

he is continually among his books, since he has no other society.

mesmo que eu o derrubasse vinte vezes, isso não o tornaria menos bonito, nem a mim menos feio. (...) - Um bom coração ajuda a ter um belo rosto, meu rapaz, mesmo que a pessoa seja monstruosa. Sabias que um coração empedernido é capaz de tornar a pessoa mais bonita num verdadeiro monstro.

no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed and listened, I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that, I don't feel pain.

Lumea întreag? e o colecÅ£ie însp?imânt?toare de amintiri care-mi spun c? ea a existat ÅŸi c-am pierdut-o!

Oh! here we are the same as anywhere else, when you get to know us,' observed Mrs. Dean, somewhat puzzled at my speech.

You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?

he was always greedy; though what he grasps with one hand he flings away wit the other.

I've known a hundred kinds of love; ?All made the loved one rue; And what is thine that it should prove ?Than other love, more true?

Hush, child, hush! Well, then, it is my darling! wisht, dry thy eyes--there's a joy; kiss me. What! it won't? Kiss me, Hareton! Damn thee, kiss me! By God, as if I would rear such a monster! As sure as I'm living, I'll break the brat's neck.

He wanted all to lie in an ecstacy of peace; i wanted all to sparkle, and dance in a glorious jubilee.