Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust

Emily Dickinson

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent

Emily Dickinson

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better

Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture

Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest

Emily Dickinson

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door

Emily Dickinson