50 Heartbreaking Wuthering Heights Quotes About Love & Revenge

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë contains some of literature’s most intense, aching lines about love, identity, and revenge. Quotes from the novel can inspire courage, fuel conviction, and remind us what it means to feel deeply. Use these quotes when you need bold words to name your passion, strength to endure pain, or clarity in moments of heartache.

Motivational quotes

• "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
• "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free."
• "Nelly, I am 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."
• "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
• "He's more myself than I am."

Inspirational quotes

• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
• "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."
• "Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad, only do not leave me in this abyss."
• "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him."
• "I have not broken your heart — you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
• "I am burning — I must have my soul."

Love & passion quotes

• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
• "He's more myself than I am."
• "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
• "Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad, only do not leave me in this abyss."
• "He's always, always in my mind..."
• "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."

Revenge & resolve quotes

• "May you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you — haunt me, then!"
• "I cannot exist without my soul."
• "I shall be with you in the dark."
• "What is hell? It is—this."
• "I am resolved — I will have my revenge."
• "If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as I do."

Life & wisdom quotes

• "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
• "I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."
• "I cannot express the deep delusion which such encounters leave upon my mind."
• "I cannot help remembering such things."
• "I would always rather be with you, than be without you."
• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

Conclusion Quotes from Wuthering Heights carry an intensity that can awaken passion, sharpen resolve, and give words to the fiercest emotions. Turn to them when you need to name what you feel, to strengthen your courage, or to reflect on love’s power to build—and to break—the self. Let these lines change a moment, and perhaps, over time, transform how you meet each day.