Emily Dickinson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

45 Famous Quotes by Emily Dickinson
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“Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Anger Quotes
“...the fog is rising.”
Last words Quotes
“Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.”
Love Quotes
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Ecstacy Quotes
“For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.”
Ecstacy Quotes
“Where thou art, that is home.”
Home Quotes
“Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.”
Hope Quotes
“"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .”
Hope Quotes
“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”
Immortality Quotes
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Living Quotes
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age Quotes
“A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.”
Abuse Quotes
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty Quotes
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
Boldness Quotes
“Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.”
Fame Quotes
“I must go in, the fog is rising.”
Famous last words Quotes
“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature Quotes
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.”
Service Quotes