Heathcliff Quotes

• The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

  Emily Bronte

  World, Lost, Collections

  Emily Bronte (2011). “Wuthering Heights”, p.270, Penguin

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• 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.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Years, Classic

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

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• I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Soul, Romantic Lines

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

  Emily Bronte

  Heartbreak, Broken, Degradation

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• May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

  Emily Bronte

  Long, May, Said

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

  Emily Bronte

  Gothic, Destruction, Lost

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.597, Penguin

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• I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

  Emily Bronte

  Crush, Pain, Energy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.475, Penguin

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• I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Break Up, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Bronte, www.theguardian.com. December 1847.

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• I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

  Emily Bronte

  Hard Work, Air, Digging

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.571, Penguin

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• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

  Emily Bronte

  Crush, Tyrants, Grind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.447, Penguin

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• My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

  Emily Bronte

  Rocks, Delight, Littles

  "Wuthering Heights".

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• What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

  Emily Bronte

  Soul, Kind, Love Betrayal

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• 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!

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Soulmate, Mad

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

  Emily Bronte

  Home, Heart, Angel

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

  Emily Bronte

  Fire, Soul, Lightning

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

  Emily Bronte

  Time, Winter, Rocks

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• Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Mind, Cold Mountain

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.72

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• I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

  Emily Bronte

  I Love Him, Men, Fire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Soulmate, I Love Him, Handsome

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

  Marisha Pessl

  Letting Go, Lonely, America

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.53, Penguin

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• I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Sorry, Past

  "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Brontë, 1847.

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• wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  Emily Bronte

  Slumber, Earth, Quiet

  Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)

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• If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

  Emily Bronte

  Would Be, Slave, Knows

  "Fictional character: Heathcliff". "Wuthering Heights", www.imdb.com. March 24, 1939.

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• He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' '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.

  Emily Bronte

  Pain, Thinking, Hands

  Emily Bronte (2016). “Wuthering Heights”, p.68, My Ebook Publishing House

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