Death Quotes by Emily Dickinson

“Love is Immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

The only secret people keep is immortality.

— Emily Dickinson

For love is immortality.

— Emily Dickinson

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

— Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

— Emily Dickinson

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me…”

— Emily Dickinson

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

— Emily Dickinson

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

— Emily Dickinson

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

— Emily Dickinson

When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the…

— 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

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach,…

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

It was not death, for I stood up, / And all the dead lie down; / It was not night, for all…

— 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

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

— Emily Dickinson

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared…

— Emily Dickinson

“Part Five: The Single Hound XVIII THERE is another Loneliness That many die without, Not want or friend occasions it, Or circumstances…

— Emily Dickinson

“XXXVII. The dying need but little, dear, —    A glass of water's all, A flower's unobtrusive face    To punctuate the wall, A…

— Emily Dickinson

“The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry…

— Emily Dickinson

“There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory…

— Emily Dickinson

“My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of…

— Emily Dickinson

“I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine, Or has an Easier size.…

— Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly…

— Emily Dickinson

“It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells…

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

— Emily Dickinson

AFRAID? Of whom am I afraid? Not death; for who is he? The porter of my fathers lodge As much abasheth me.

— Emily Dickinson

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost…

— Emily Dickinson

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take…

— Emily Dickinson

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die…

— Emily Dickinson

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed…

— Emily Dickinson

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but…

— Emily Dickinson