Quotes by Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
Forever is composed of nows.
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it staying at Home With a Bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard for a Dome.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
