Quotes By Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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

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

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

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Fortune befriends the bold.

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

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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

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

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.