Heathcliff

Character in Wuthering Heights From: Wuthering Heights

Foundling raised by the Earnshaws; becomes the central antagonist driven by revenge and passion

257 quotes

"I cannot forget what I've been."
"I would not strike you, nor would I harm you."
Strength
"She has cast me off."
"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their company."
Change
"Why do you counsel me to be patient?"
Patience
"I am not meek or resigned."
Courage
"You're not fit to associate with us."
"I have not ceased to love her."
Love
"My every nerve is revolted against him."
Truth
"Let me alone—I cannot bear to see your eyes."
"I'll have it out with you."
"Whatever I do, I shall do it thoroughly."
"I'd crush his ribs in like a rotten hazel-nut."
"I shall be pleased to see you again."
"My last breath is drawn in your service."
"Come with me, and we will leave this place."
"She'd as soon see a toad as me."
"I have brought a devil into your house."
"Go away! You're standing where she stood."
"I've been tortured enough."
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Love
"I am not to be talked to in that strain."
Strength
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Relationships
"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."
Love
"I cannot live without my life!"
Life
"You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death!"
Death
"I wish I could hold you till we were both dead!"
Power
"I'm trying to settle my affairs in order only for the satisfaction of desiring to benefit some one more than another."
Justice
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Time
"Being alone, and liking it."
Solitude