Emily Brontë citáty

„Je víc mnou než já sama. Ať už jsou naše duše z čehokoli, jeho a moje jsou stejné.“

—  Emily Brontë

„Nezlomil jsem tvé srdce - zlomil sis ho sám; a během toho si rozbil i to moje.“

—  Emily Brontë

„Hořela příliš jasně pro tento svět.“

—  Emily Brontë

„Stačí dobré srdce, a budeš krásný, kdybys měl tvář třeba jako uhel černou. Zlé srdce zohyzdí sebekrásnější obličej ještě víc, než kdyby byl od přírody nehezký.´´“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

„Moje láska k Lintonovi je jako list v lese – čas ji zeslabí, to vím, tak jako v zimě opadají stromy. Ale má láska k Heathcliffovi je jako ty věčné skály pod lesem – ne oku pro radost, ale podstata života. Já jsem Heathcliff, Nelly!“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

„Můj život těžký byl – to dodalo mi moudrosti.“

—  Emily Brontë

„Přála bych si, abych byla znovu dívka, napůl divoká a vytrvalá a svobodná.“

—  Emily Brontë

„She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Varianta: She burned too bright for this world.
Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

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

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: 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.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Heathcliff (Ch. XIV).
Zdroj: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Kontext: I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine; 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. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that house-trough as her whole affection be monopolized by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me; how can she love in him what he has not?

„He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Varianta: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„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 can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Heathcliff (Ch. XVI).
Zdroj: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Kontext: 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 can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

„Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

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

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„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.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„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.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„And yet I cannot continue in this condition! I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Heathcliff (Ch. XXXIII).
Zdroj: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Kontext: I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment, nor a hope of death. Why should I? With my hard constitution, and temperate mode of living, and unperilous occupations, I ought to, and probably shall remain above ground, till there is scarcely a black hair on my head. And yet I cannot continue in this condition! I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat! And it is like bending back a stiff spring — 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. They have yearned towards it so long and so unwaveringly, that I’m convinced it will be reached — and soon — because it has devoured my existence. I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfilment. My confessions have not relieved me — but they may account for some otherwise unaccountable phases of humour which I show. Oh, God! It's a long fight, I wish it were over!