Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Famous Quotes



"Hope is the thing with feathers -- that perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never stops, at all."

Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

"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."

"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."

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

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain."

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

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

"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

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

A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.

I dwell in possibility.


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Quotations






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