61+ Best Wuthering Heights Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë. It was published in 1847 under her pseudonym, Ellis Bell. It is her only finished novel. The narrative more or less relates a so-called “cuckoo’s” history. A foundling has inveigled property from the Earnshaw family and had a very strong bond with one of its members. Profoundly inspirational Wuthering Heights quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

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Famous Wuthering Heights Quotes

He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Wuthering Heights

You teach me now how cruel you’ve been cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. Heathcliff

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. Wuthering Heights

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. Heathcliff

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. Wuthering Heights

In every cloud, in every tree filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! Heathcliff

I have to remind myself to breathe almost to remind my heart to beat! Wuthering Heights

Do I want to live? Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? Heathcliff

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! Wuthering Heights

Are you possessed with a devil, to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me? Heathcliff

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. Wuthering Heights

You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you are able. Heathcliff

Honest people don’t hide their deeds. Wuthering Heights

You teach me now how cruel you’ve been cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. Heathcliff

I have not broken your heart you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. Wuthering Heights

Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! Heathcliff

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Wuthering Heights

I have to remind myself to breathe  almost to remind my heart to beat! Heathcliff

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. Wuthering Heights

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands, he answered. Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer but yours! How can I? Heathcliff

In every cloud, in every tree filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! Wuthering Heights

Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them. Heathcliff

She could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression her anger was never furious; her love never fierce; it was deep and tender. Wuthering Heights

It is not in him to be loved like me how can she love in him what he has not? Heathcliff

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! Wuthering Heights

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. Catherine

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

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! Catherine

They forgot everything the minute they were together again. Wuthering Heights

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. Catherine

Do I want to live? Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? Wuthering Heights

Linton is all I have to love in the world, and though you have done what you could to make him hateful to me, and me to him, you cannot make us hate each other. And I defy you to hurt him when I am by, and I defy you to frighten me! Catherine

You teach me now how cruel you’ve been cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. Wuthering Heights

I have not broken your heart you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Catherine

You loved me then what right had you to leave me? Wuthering Heights

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

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him. Wuthering Heights

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. Nelly Dean

Existence, after losing her, would be hell. Wuthering Heights

He has no claim on my charity. I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me. Isabella

Are you possessed with a devil, he pursued, savagely, to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me? Wuthering Heights

She could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression her anger was never furious; her love never fierce; it was deep and tender. Nelly Dean

You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you are able.  Wuthering Heights

You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton she spends a thousand on me! Heathcliff

Terror made me cruel. Wuthering Heights

It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain. Heathcliff

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. Wuthering Heights

Small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck. Catherine Jr.

I seek no revenge on you. That’s not the plan. The Tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them. Wuthering Heights

Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes still it wailed, Let me in! Lockwood

It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain. Wuthering Heights

Yet, still, I don’t like being out in the dark now; and I don’t like being left by myself in this grim house I cannot help it; I shall be glad when they leave it, and shift to the Grange. Nelly

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! Wuthering Heights

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. Lockwood

I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me infernally infernally! and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot and if you fancy I’ll suffer unrevenged, I’ll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while! Wuthering Heights

Let him dare to force you. There’s law in the land, thank God! there is; though we be in an out of the way place. I’d inform if he were my own son and it’s felony without benefit of clergy! Ellen

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. Wuthering Heights

If the dead villain could rise from his grave to abuse me for his offspring’s wrongs, I should have the fun of seeing the said offspring fight him back again, indignant that he should dare to rail at the one friend he has in the world! Heathcliff

If you have not the courage to attack him, make an apology or allow yourself to be beaten. It will correct you of feigning more valor than you possess. Wuthering Heights