Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

3. “I dwell in possibility.”

— Emily Dickinson

4. “Pardon my sanity in a world insane.”

— Emily Dickinson

5. “Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

6. “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

— Emily Dickinson

7. “We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

— Emily Dickinson

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8. “Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”

— Emily Dickinson

9. “The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.”

— Emily Dickinson

10. “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.”

— Emily Dickinson

11. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

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12. “Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”

— Emily Dickinson

13. “Fortune befriends the bold.”

— Emily Dickinson

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14. “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

— Emily Dickinson

15. “Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.”

— Emily Dickinson

16. “If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

19. “To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.”

— Emily Dickinson

20. “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

— Emily Dickinson

21. “Till I loved I never lived.”

— Emily Dickinson

22. “The brain is wider than the sky.”

— Emily Dickinson

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23. “I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us – don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!”

— Emily Dickinson

24. “A wounded dear leaps the highest.”

— Emily Dickinson

25. “Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”

— Emily Dickinson

26. “Beauty is not caused. It is.”

— Emily Dickinson

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27. “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

28. “The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

30. “I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

— Emily Dickinson

31. “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.”

— Emily Dickinson

32. “Love is everything. And that’s all we know about it.”

— Emily Dickinson

33. “You can stay young as long as you learn.”

— Emily Dickinson

34. “I tasted life.”

— Emily Dickinson

35. “This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me.”

— Emily Dickinson

36. “Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell.”

— Emily Dickinson

37. “I have an appetite for silence.”

— Emily Dickinson

38. “There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away, Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

40. “I felt it shelter to speak to you.”

— Emily Dickinson

41. “Bring me the sunset in a cup.”

— Emily Dickinson

42. “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

44. “To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.”

— Emily Dickinson

45. “A word is dead when it’s been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”

— Emily Dickinson

46. “In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!”

— Emily Dickinson

47. “That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”

— Emily Dickinson

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48. “I must go in, the fog is rising.”

— Emily Dickinson

49. “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.”

— Emily Dickinson

50. “Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

— Emily Dickinson