Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

208. “Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.”

— Emily Dickinson

209. “Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

214. “You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E’en through the darkest night!”

— Emily Dickinson

215. “Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play – In accidental power – The blonde Assassin passes on – The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

217. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

220. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

225. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

229. “Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

231. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

234. “Truth – is as old as God –...”

— Emily Dickinson

235. “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

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

— Emily Dickinson

237. “My Country is Truth.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

239. “Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.”

— Emily Dickinson

240. “There’s nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don’t want to know it.”

— Emily Dickinson

241. “Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

243. “There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.”

— Emily Dickinson

244. “Endow the Living – with the Tears – You squander on the Dead.”

— Emily Dickinson

245. “Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?”

— Emily Dickinson

246. “Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight – Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night.”

— Emily Dickinson

247. “I hope you’re very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great – there are temptations there which at home you are free from – beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.”

— Emily Dickinson

248. “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun.”

— Emily Dickinson

249. “Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face; Nor for any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart: For those may fail or turn to ill, So thou and I shall sever. Keep therefore a true woman’s eye, And love me still, but know not why; So hast thou the same reason still To doat upon me ever.”

— Emily Dickinson

250. “There is no frigate like a book.”

— Emily Dickinson