Emily Dickinson Life Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nods from the Gilded pointers --/ Nods from the Seconds slim --/ Decades of Arrogance between/ The Dial life --/ And Him --

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet

I cannot live with You --/ It would be Life --/ And Life is over there --/ Behind the Shelf.

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -

If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

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

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.