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 DICKINSONOpinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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