Top 500 Emily Dickinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The days will have more hours while you are gone away.”

— Emily Dickinson

252. “IX. The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

— Emily Dickinson

253. “As there are apartments in our own minds that we never enter without apology we should respect the seals of others.”

— Emily Dickinson

254. “Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.”

— Emily Dickinson

255. “Our summer made her light escape into the beautiful.”

— Emily Dickinson

256. “A face devoid of love or grace, A hateful, hard, successful face, A face with which a stone Would feel as thoroughly at ease As were they old acquaintances, –.”

— Emily Dickinson

257. “Stands the sun so close and mighty That our minds are hot.”

— Emily Dickinson

258. “Some things that fly there be, – Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:.”

— Emily Dickinson

259. “The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.”

— Emily Dickinson

260. “The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.”

— Emily Dickinson

261. “How vain it seems to write, when one knows how to feel – how much more near and dear to sit beside you, talk with you, hear the tones of your voice... Give me strength, Susie, write me of hope and love, and of hearts that endure...”

— Emily Dickinson

262. “Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.”

— Emily Dickinson

263. “A power of Butterfly must be – The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -.”

— Emily Dickinson

264. “A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.”

— Emily Dickinson

265. “There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.”

— Emily Dickinson

266. “Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.”

— Emily Dickinson

267. “It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.”

— Emily Dickinson

268. “To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee –.”

— Emily Dickinson

269. “To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.”

— Emily Dickinson

270. “I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.”

— Emily Dickinson

271. “You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea – I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!”

— Emily Dickinson

272. “Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”

— Emily Dickinson

273. “Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.”

— Emily Dickinson

274. “We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.”

— Emily Dickinson

275. “The Heart is the Capital of the Mind – The Mind is a single State – The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent – One – is the Population – Numerous enough – This ecstatic Nation Seek – it is Yourself.”

— Emily Dickinson

276. “We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.”

— Emily Dickinson

277. “Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.”

— Emily Dickinson

278. “I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.”

— Emily Dickinson

279. “We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.”

— Emily Dickinson

280. “The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?”

— Emily Dickinson

281. “Home is the definition of God.”

— Emily Dickinson

282. “What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?”

— Emily Dickinson

283. “Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”

— Emily Dickinson

284. “Emerging from an Abyss and entering it again – that is Life, is it not?”

— Emily Dickinson

285. “I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.”

— Emily Dickinson

286. “Dying is a wild night and a new road.”

— Emily Dickinson

287. “I took one Draught of Life – I’ll tell you what I paid – Precisely an existence – The market price, they said.”

— Emily Dickinson

288. “A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

— Emily Dickinson

289. “There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.”

— Emily Dickinson

290. “Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

292. “If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.”

— Emily Dickinson

293. “The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.”

— Emily Dickinson

294. “How odd that girl’s life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I’m wife! stop there!”

— Emily Dickinson

295. “Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.”

— Emily Dickinson

296. “Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I’d rather suit my foot Than save my Boot – For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store – But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more –.”

— Emily Dickinson

297. “So few that live have life...”

— Emily Dickinson

298. “It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy – a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.”

— Emily Dickinson

299. “Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”

— Emily Dickinson

300. “How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door...”

— Emily Dickinson