Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Assent – and you are sane – Demur – and you’re straightaway dangerous – and handled with a chain.”

— Emily Dickinson

202. “I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.”

— Emily Dickinson

203. “Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.”

— Emily Dickinson

204. “Love can do all but raise the Dead.”

— Emily Dickinson

205. “These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.”

— Emily Dickinson

206. “I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”

— Emily Dickinson

207. “So few that live have life...”

— Emily Dickinson

208. “Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.”

— Emily Dickinson

209. “The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.”

— Emily Dickinson

210. “A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.”

— Emily Dickinson

211. “Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!”

— Emily Dickinson

212. “Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.”

— Emily Dickinson

213. “That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.”

— Emily Dickinson

214. “My love for those I love – not many – not very many, but don’t I love them so?”

— Emily Dickinson

215. “Who loves you most, and loves you best, and thinks of you when others rest? ‘Tis Emilie.”

— Emily Dickinson

216. “The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.”

— Emily Dickinson

217. “The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.”

— Emily Dickinson

218. “The Soul selects her own Society – Then – shuts the Door – To her divine Majority – Present no more –.”

— Emily Dickinson

219. “Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.”

— Emily Dickinson

220. “Such is the force of Happiness – The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.”

— Emily Dickinson

221. “You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”

— Emily Dickinson

222. “The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.”

— Emily Dickinson

223. “THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, – Her visitor no more.”

— Emily Dickinson

224. “They say that “Time assuages” – Time never did assuage – An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age – Time is a Test of Trouble – But not a Remedy – If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady.”

— Emily Dickinson

225. “Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.”

— Emily Dickinson

226. “Pain – has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun – or if there were a time when it was not – It has no Future – but itself – Its Infinite contain Its Past – enlightened to perceive New Periods – of Pain.”

— Emily Dickinson

227. “Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.”

— Emily Dickinson

228. “We grow accustomed to the dark when light is put away –.”

— Emily Dickinson

229. “We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.”

— Emily Dickinson

230. “I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.”

— Emily Dickinson

231. “Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.”

— Emily Dickinson

232. “Fame is a bee It has a song – It has a sting – Ah, too, it has a wing.”

— Emily Dickinson

233. “His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.”

— Emily Dickinson

234. “Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?”

— Emily Dickinson

235. “Faith slips – and laughs, and rallies.”

— Emily Dickinson

236. “Let us strive together to part with time more reluctantly, to watch the pinions of the fleeting moment until they are dim in the distance, and the new-coming moment claims our attention.”

— Emily Dickinson

237. “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – In Corners – till a Day The Owner passed – identified – And carried Me away -.”

— Emily Dickinson

238. “One note from one bird is better than a million words...”

— Emily Dickinson

239. “XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, – Life!”

— Emily Dickinson

240. “I’ll tell you how the Sun rose.”

— Emily Dickinson

241. “A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die.”

— Emily Dickinson

242. “A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.”

— Emily Dickinson

243. “The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.”

— Emily Dickinson

244. “Truth – is as old as God –...”

— Emily Dickinson

245. “BEQUEST. You left me, sweet, two legacies, – A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.”

— Emily Dickinson

246. “So instead of getting to Heaven, at last – I’m going, all along.”

— Emily Dickinson

247. “Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”

— Emily Dickinson

248. “My Country is Truth.”

— Emily Dickinson

249. “Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.”

— Emily Dickinson

250. “Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.”

— Emily Dickinson