Emily Dickinson Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• 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

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

  Emily Dickinson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press

• The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Pagan, Natural

• Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Chains, Dangerous

• At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Jesus, Air, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

• Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Heart, Snow

  Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

• They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Father, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.10, Heinemann

• Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Garden, Rocks, Wicked

• Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Lovers, Criteria

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.369, Courier Corporation

• When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

  Emily Dickinson

  Thinking, Forever, Effort

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2349, Delphi Classics

• I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Giving Up, Atheism, Christ

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.9, Harvard University Press

• Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Night, Atheism, Flight

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1832, Delphi Classics

• The Truth never flaunted a sign.

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Positive Atheism

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.494, Harvard University Press

• I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Knowing, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

• Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

  Emily Dickinson

  Arrows, Atheism, Strikes

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.602, Harvard University Press

• Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Hats, Positive Atheism

• You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Temptation, Wicked

• When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.

  Emily Dickinson

  Father, Grief, Home

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.837, Harvard University Press

• If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Dawn, Forget

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

• What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Thinking, Light

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Sea, Water, Being Positive

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.362, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

  Emily Dickinson

  Prayer, Fall, Snow

• 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

  Wind, Sea, Water

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

• I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

  Emily Dickinson

  Yield, Hands, Bird

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.421, Harvard University Press

• Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

  Emily Dickinson

  Feet, Broken, Atheism

• God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blessing, Long, Atheism

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