Emily Dickinson Quotes

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

To live 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

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

— Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson
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