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125+ Most Inspiring Emily Dickinson Quotes

posted on June 10, 2022

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1) Top 10 Most Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
2) Emily Dickinson Quotes About Death
3) Emily Dickinson Quotes About Love
4) Inspirational Emily Dickinson Quotes
5) More Emily Dickinson Quotes

Top 10 Most Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson Quotes

We turn not older with years but newer every day.
— Emily Dickinson

We turn not older with years but newer every day. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
— Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.
— Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson Quotes

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
— Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words – and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words – and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson Quotes

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
— Emily Dickinson

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
— Emily Dickinson

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson Quotes

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
— Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson Quotes

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
— Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Death

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.
— Emily Dickinson

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
— Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead; ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
— Emily Dickinson

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat. Emily Dickinson Quotes

My life closed twice before its close.
— Emily Dickinson

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last.
— Emily Dickinson

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
— Emily Dickinson

Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell.
— Emily Dickinson

Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell. Emily Dickinson Quotes

A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
— Emily Dickinson

Heaven is what I cannot reach!
— Emily Dickinson

Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
— Emily Dickinson

I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
— Emily Dickinson

She died-this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
— Emily Dickinson

It was not death, for I stood up,
And all the dead lie down;
It was not night, for all the bells
Put out their tongues, for noon.
— Emily Dickinson

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through –
— Emily Dickinson

Since then ’tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.
— Emily Dickinson

Those who have not found the heaven below,
will fail of it above.
— Emily Dickinson

Though I than He – may longer live
He longer must – than I –
For I have but the power to kill,
Without – the power to die.
— Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
— Emily Dickinson

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down –
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing – then –
— Emily Dickinson

A Toad, can die of Light –
Death is the Common Right
Of Toads and Men.
— Emily Dickinson

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Love can do all but raise the Dead
I doubt if even that
From such a giant were withheld
Were flesh equivalent.
— Emily Dickinson

That short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
Tis almost consequence,
Is the éclat of death.
— Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Love

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.
— Emily Dickinson

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
— Emily Dickinson

The heart wants what it wants — or else it does not care.
— Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Sometimes I shut my eyes, and shut my heart towards you, and try hard to forget you because you grieve me so, but you’ll never go away, oh you never will.
— Emily Dickinson

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
— Emily Dickinson

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Quotes

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind—
The Mind is a single State—
The Heart and the Mind together make
A single Continent—
— Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
— Emily Dickinson

But love is tired and must sleep,
And hungry and must graze
And so abets the shining Fleet
Till it is out of gaze.
— Emily Dickinson

They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.
— Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain…
— Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain… Emily Dickinson Quotes

Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
— Emily Dickinson

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.
— Emily Dickinson

I love the cause that slew me.
— Emily Dickinson

Not with a club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone –
A Whip so small you could not see it
I’ve known.
— Emily Dickinson

Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again.
— Emily Dickinson

Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again. Emily Dickinson Quotes

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer.
— Emily Dickinson

Judge tenderly of me.
— Emily Dickinson

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain.
— Emily Dickinson

Give me strength, Susie, write me of hope and love, and of hearts that endure…
— Emily Dickinson

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away.
— Emily Dickinson

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away. Emily Dickinson Quotes

If you were here, we need not talk at all for our eyes would whisper for us and, your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language.
— Emily Dickinson

Inspirational Emily Dickinson Quotes

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
— Emily Dickinson

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Did you ask me out with a bunch of Daisies, I should thank you, and accept –
— Emily Dickinson

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
— Emily Dickinson

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word.
— Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
— Emily Dickinson

Now there’s a word to lift your hat to… to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
— Emily Dickinson

A wounded dear leaps the highest.
— Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry.
— Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson Quotes

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
— Emily Dickinson

If your Nerve, deny you
Go above your Nerve.
— Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
— Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson Quotes

But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
— Emily Dickinson

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
— Emily Dickinson

I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me.
— Emily Dickinson

The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.
— Emily Dickinson

The Bees — became as Butterflies —
The Butterflies — as Swans —
Approached — and spurned the narrow Grass —
And just the meanest Tunes.
— Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
— Emily Dickinson

Wild nights – Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
— Emily Dickinson

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.
— Emily Dickinson

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Bring me the sunset in a cup.
— Emily Dickinson

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
— Emily Dickinson

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
— Emily Dickinson

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson Quotes

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
— Emily Dickinson

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
— Emily Dickinson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
— Emily Dickinson

Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
— Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
— Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson Quotes

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
— Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
— Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The carriage held but just ourselves – and immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

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

More Emily Dickinson Quotes

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
— Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Nature is a haunted house – but Art – is a house that tries to be haunted.
— Emily Dickinson

Nature is a haunted house – but Art – is a house that tries to be haunted. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
— Emily Dickinson

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. Emily Dickinson Quotes

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
— Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Fortune befriends the bold.
— Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky.
— Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
— Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time it releases a little demon. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
— Emily Dickinson

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
— Emily Dickinson

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
— Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.
— Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
— Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name. Emily Dickinson Quotes

My friends are my estate.
— Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility.
— Emily Dickinson

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
— Emily Dickinson

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson Quotes

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
— Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
— Emily Dickinson

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
— Emily Dickinson

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

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 Quotes

Beauty is not caused. It is.
— Emily Dickinson

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
— Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
— Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
— Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
— Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
— Emily Dickinson

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
— Emily Dickinson

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
— Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
— Emily Dickinson

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

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
— Emily Dickinson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
— Emily Dickinson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson Quotes

I’m nobody, who are you?
— Emily Dickinson

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
— Emily Dickinson

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but… when she became our child, the affection came. Emily Dickinson Quotes

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
— Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
— Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Emily Dickinson Quotes

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
— Emily Dickinson

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


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