Emily Dickinson Quotes About Contentment

Quotes about: Contentment

• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

• After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

  Emily Dickinson

  Letting Go, Pain, Heart

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

• Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

  Emily Dickinson

  Expectations, Contentment, Gains

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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