Emily Dickinson Famous Quotes
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
My friends are my estate.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all."
I dwell in possibility...
"There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--"
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson Quotations
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
"Do your work not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest."
Dean Briggs
"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power."
Ovid
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West
It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Virginia
"Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all."
Charles Dickens
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Carl Sagan
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
William Safire
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
Hellen Keller
"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys."
Chao Lihua