Wuthering Heights Quotes

“Where is she? Not there—not in heaven . . . you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; 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!’
- Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I'd not only turn the other, but I'd ask pardon for provoking it”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It is by compulsion that I do the slightest act not prompted by one thought, and by compulsion, that I notice anything alive or dead, which is not associated with one universal idea. I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. - pg 388”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“But I've been as happy musing by myself among these stones, under that old church: lying, through the long June evenings, on the green mound of her mother's grave, and wishing, yearning for the time when I might be beneath it. - pg 311”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listening to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth - pg 403”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!" he said. "It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down" - pg 150”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The murdered do haunt their murderer. (...) 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 cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! - pg 211”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. You are miserable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you—nobody will cry for you when you die! I wouldn’t be you!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I wish I could hold you,’ she continued, bitterly, ‘till we were both dead! 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 Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You said I killed you,
Haunt me then.”
― Wuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights