Best Wuthering Heights Quotes About Love

Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel that explores themes of obsessive self-destructive love, social class and revenge.

It is about the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan her father brings home to their estate on a remote Yorkshire moor. Catherine’s decision to marry the respectable Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff turns that love into a lifelong obsession, haunting both families.

Years later, Heathcliff’s cruelty nearly destroys their children too, until a new, gentler relationship between Cathy Linton and Hareton Earnshaw hints that the cycle of suffering at last might end.

Here are 15 romantic quotes from the famous book Wuthering Heights

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

he’s more myself than I am

only do not leave me in

this abyss, where I cannot find you!

I_cannot_ live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

He shall never know I love him.

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

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

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.

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.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

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

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Journaling and Writing Prompts:

• Write about someone or something that feels as if it shares your soul.

• Describe how it feels to miss someone deeply. How does absence change your days and thoughts?

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Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Secret Love

Emily Dickinson’s poetry often speaks quietly. Her love is inward, thoughtful, and sometimes spiritual. She reminds us, “Love is anterior to life, posterior to death,” suggesting that love exists beyond the limits of time.

Other quotes from Dickinson’s poems are:

That I shall love alway,

I offer thee

That love is life,

And life hath immortality.

Of all the souls that stand create

I have elected one.

"GOING to him! Happy letter! Tell him --

Tell him the page I didn't write;

Tell him I only said the syntax,

And left the verb and the pronoun out.

Love is anterior to life,

  Posterior to death,

Initial of creation, and

  The exponent of breath.

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

Journaling Prompts Inspired By Poems:

• Write a letter you will never send. What truth would you share if you could?

• Reflect on what eternal love means to you. Do you find it in memory, energy, or hope?

• Complete this line in your journal: “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul… 

• By following Dickinson’s gentle spirit, journaling becomes a quiet conversation with yourself.

Jane Austen: The Courage to Confess

We all know Pride and Prejudice from Austen.  But all of her beautiful works have this one theme in common: restraint and expression in love. 

They show how difficult it can be to speak the truth about love, yet how powerful those words become once they are voiced. 

Think of Mr. Darcy’s confession, “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Or the tender honesty of Persuasion: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”

Most famous Jane Austen Book Quotes:

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. (Mr. Darcy’s confession)

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

For you alone, I think and plan.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Journaling and love letter prompts:

• Describe a moment when you wished to share something heartfelt but remained silent. What stopped you?

• Begin a letter with the line “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” Let your thoughts expand naturally from there.

• Explore what admiration feels like in your body. Does it warm your chest, calm your mind, or fill you with quiet energy?

  
  

Journaling for Romance and Reflection

You do not need skill or polish to begin. What matters most is starting. Here is a simple practice you can try.

1. Select one quote from Brontë, Dickinson, or Austen.

   
   

2. Write it at the top of a blank journal page.

   
   

3. Spend five minutes writing about the feeling or memory that the quote awakens in you.

   
   

4. If you wish, expand that entry into a short love letter, either to yourself or to another person.

   
   

You may find that the words flow more easily than expected. The language of love often appears once you open yourself to it. The old words from literature might open the doorway if you feel stuck in your writing.