Emily Dickinson Quotes
"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Heaven, Hell, Parting)
"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Success, Succeed)
"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Nothing, Saying)
"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: People, Oppression)
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Age, Thought, Old)
"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Dawn, Open, Will)
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Friends)
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Dawn)
"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Love, Death, Life, Creation)
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Life, Will)
"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Chance, Fortune, Luck, Smile)
"The brain is wider than the sky."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Sky)
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Experience, Soul)
"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Poetry)
"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Necessity, Sight, Smile)
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: God)
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Time)
"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Love, Time)
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Bees, Will)
"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Truth)
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Love, Immortality)
"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
- Emily Dickinson
"Where thou art, that is home."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Home, Art)
"I'm nobody, who are you?"
- Emily Dickinson
"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Time, First)
"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Death, Immortality)
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Day, Word)
"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
- Emily Dickinson
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Poetry)
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Beauty)
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Poetry, Body, Fire)
"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Behavior, Man)
"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Talent, Celebrity, Merit, Punishment)
"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Dogs)
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Dying, Night, Road)
"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Food, Fame)
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Life, Ecstasy, Joy, Living, Sense)
"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Infinite)
"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Life, Fame, Living, Man, Name)
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Feeling, Nerves, Pain)
"For love is immortality."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Love, Immortality)
"I dwell in possibility."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Possibility)
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Heart)
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Life, Love, Immortality)
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Nature)
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Soul, Hope, Words)
"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Poor, Spirit, Words)
"Fortune befriends the bold."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Fortune)
"Forever is composed of nows."
- Emily Dickinson
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Love, Hope, Birds, Heaven)