Emily Dickinson Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

• Dying is a wild night and a new road.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.463, Harvard University Press

• My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
  Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Encouragement, Heaven

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

• We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Fate, Doors

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1354, Harvard University Press

• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

• I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Dying

• Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Winning, Brave

• Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Near Death

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.74, First Avenue Editions

• So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Desire, Proud

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.498, Harvard University Press

• A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Men, Light

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.166, Harvard University Press

• I died for Beauty--but was scarce
  Adjusted in the Tomb
  When One who died for Truth, was lain
  In an adjoining Room

  Emily Dickinson

  Beauty, Death, Truth

  "I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

• I never lost as much but twice,
  And that was in the sod.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Loss, Lost

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

• Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
  When breath blew back,
  And on the other side
  I heard recede the disappointed tide!

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Tides, Sides

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.67, Harvard University Press

• That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Bustle, Consequence

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.184, Wordsworth Editions

• My life closed twice before its close

  Emily Dickinson

  Death

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 1 (unknown date)

• The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Distance, Years

  Complete Poems, no.1742 (first published 1896).

• You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Letting Go, Trying

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

• A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Blow, Vitality

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.293, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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