Quotes from Emily Bronte

Amo-o mais do que a mim mesma, Ellen, e tenho a certeza por isto: todas as noites rezo para que Deus me leve depois dele, pois prefiro sofrer com a falta dele a ele sofrer com a minha perda. Isso prova que o amo mais do que a mim mesma.

Ocurre a veces que sentimos piedad por gente que ni para consigo misma ni para con los demás conoce este sentimiento.

Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far overtopped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances.

melancholy sweeter than common joy.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,' I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.

know so well that human nature is human nature everywhere, whether under tile or thatch, and that in every specimen of human nature that breathes, vice and virtue are ever found blended, in smaller or greater proportions, and that the proportion is not determined by station. I have seen villains who were rich, and I have seen villains who were poor, and I have seen villains who were neither rich nor poor

I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.

Take warning and begone! It's a kindness to let you have a glimpse of her genuine disposition.

Non lo amo perché è bello, Nelly, ma perché è ancora di più uguale a me stessa di quanto possa esserlo io. Di qualsiasi cosa siano fatte le nostre anime, la sua e la mia sono identiche.

It is not in him to be loved like me. How could she love in him, what he has not?

No puedo ni bajar la vista al suelo sin que sus rasgos se dibujen en las baldosas. En cada nube, en cada árbol, colmando el aire nocturno y refulgiendo de día a rachas en cada objeto, me veo continuamente cercado por su imagen. Los rostros más triviales de hombres y mujeres y hasta los propios rasgos de mi cara se burlan de mí, ofreciéndome su parecido. El mundo entero es una atroz colección de testimonios acreditativos de que vivió y de que ya la he perdido.

In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority

my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger...

Softly, Miss,' answered she addressed; 'you'll lose nothing by being civil.

Enough of thought, philosopher! Too long hast thou been dreaming Unlightened, in this chamber drear, While summer's sun is beaming! Space-sweeping soul, what sad refrain Concludes thy musings once again?

No sé de qué están hechas las almas, pero la mía y la suya son una sola

No, come here, Miss Catherine, now and then: not every morning, but once or twice a week.' The father launched towards his son a glance of bitter contempt.

I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;

O brilho dos seus olhos fora substituído por uma suavidade sonhadora e melancólica; eles já não davam a impressão de olhar para os objetos que a rodeavam: pareciam sempre olhar para longe, bem longe — como se fixos fora deste mundo.

You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never!

Cualquier reliquia de los muertos es preciosa si se les valoró en vida

She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we would invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.

doing just what her father hated most—showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness. How the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inclination.