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 DICKINSONFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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I dwell in possibility.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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