Life Quotes by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

— Emily Dickinson

Love is like life-merely longer.

— Emily Dickinson

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

— Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

— Emily Dickinson

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

— Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

— Emily Dickinson

Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

— Emily Dickinson

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

— Emily Dickinson

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

— Emily Dickinson

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And…

— Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

— Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

— Emily Dickinson

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your…

— Emily Dickinson

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This…

— Emily Dickinson

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all…

— Emily Dickinson

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a…

— Emily Dickinson

“Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a heart in port— Done with…

— Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge,…

— Emily Dickinson

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we,…

— Emily Dickinson

“Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At…

— Emily Dickinson

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that…

— Emily Dickinson

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour,…

— Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise –…

— Emily Dickinson

“The Inevitable While I was fearing it, it came, But came with less of fear, Because that fearing it so long Had…

— Emily Dickinson

“I did not reach thee, But my feet slip nearer every day; Three Rivers and a Hill to cross, One Desert and…

— Emily Dickinson

“FAREWELL. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord,    Then I am ready to go! Just a look at the horses —…

— Emily Dickinson

“My life had stood--a Loaded Gun-- In Corners--till a Day The Owner passed--identified-- And carried Me away-- And now We roam in…

— Emily Dickinson

The earth was made for lovers

— Emily Dickinson

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

— Emily Dickinson

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

— Emily Dickinson

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

— Emily Dickinson

“In this short Life that only lasts an hour How much - how little - is within our power”

— Emily Dickinson

That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet.

— Emily Dickinson

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

— Emily Dickinson

“That I shall love always, I argue thee that love is life, and life hath immortality”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson