Emily Bronte Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.

  Emily Bronte

  Home, Eye, Moon

• Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

  Emily Bronte

  Men, Gone, Earth

  'Last Lines'

• A heaven so clear, an earth so calm,
  So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air;
  And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,
  Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Sheep, Air

  "A Little While, a Little While". Poem by Emily Bronte, etc.usf.edu. 1846.

• 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

• I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  Emily Bronte

  Wind, Sky, Breathing

  Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)

• Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

  Emily Bronte

  Lonely, Inspire, Dreamer

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.189, The Floating Press

• 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)

• 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.

• 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

• Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

  Emily Bronte

  Blessing, Heaven, Earth

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