Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It is strange that the most intangible thing is the most adhesive.”

— Emily Dickinson

102. “I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.”

— Emily Dickinson

103. “The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain.”

— Emily Dickinson

104. “The Truth never flaunted a sign.”

— Emily Dickinson

105. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

— Emily Dickinson

106. “How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!”

— Emily Dickinson

107. “My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don’t know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.”

— Emily Dickinson

108. “I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.”

— Emily Dickinson

109. “The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.”

— Emily Dickinson

110. “It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.”

— Emily Dickinson

111. “An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.”

— Emily Dickinson

112. “The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

114. “They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”

— Emily Dickinson

115. “I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.”

— Emily Dickinson

116. “I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too – And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness...”

— Emily Dickinson

117. “Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.”

— Emily Dickinson

118. “How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.”

— Emily Dickinson

119. “I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.”

— Emily Dickinson

120. “There is no Silence in the Earth – so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.”

— Emily Dickinson

121. “I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be – solitude, and the figures – solitude – and the lights and shades, each a solitude.”

— Emily Dickinson

122. “My friends are my estate.”

— Emily Dickinson

123. “I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.”

— Emily Dickinson

124. “Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -.”

— Emily Dickinson

125. “The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

127. “Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”

— Emily Dickinson

128. “How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one’s hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one’s waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!”

— Emily Dickinson

129. “I fear a Man of frugal speech – I fear a Silent Man – Haranguer – I can overtake – Or Babbler – entertain – But He who weigheth – While the Rest – Expend their furthest pound – Of this Man – I am wary – I fear that He is Grand -.”

— Emily Dickinson

130. “What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.”

— Emily Dickinson

131. “I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, – This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.”

— Emily Dickinson

132. “By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.”

— Emily Dickinson

133. “There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.”

— Emily Dickinson

134. “The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.”

— Emily Dickinson

135. “The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.”

— Emily Dickinson

136. “To shut your eyes is to travel.”

— Emily Dickinson

137. “Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.”

— Emily Dickinson

138. “Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.”

— Emily Dickinson

139. “To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.”

— Emily Dickinson

140. “You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.”

— Emily Dickinson

141. “We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.”

— Emily Dickinson

142. “Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.”

— Emily Dickinson

143. “The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.”

— Emily Dickinson

144. “Nothing is the force that renovates the World.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

146. “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.”

— Emily Dickinson

147. “Love is like life-merely longer.”

— Emily Dickinson

148. “I like a look of Agony, because I know it’s true – men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe.”

— Emily Dickinson

149. “Wonder is not precisely knowing.”

— Emily Dickinson

150. “The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth, – The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.”

— Emily Dickinson