Emily Dickinson Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• 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

• We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Hurt, Drama

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.408, Harvard University Press

• To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not see— Who fall — and none observe — Whose dying eyes, no Country Regards with patriot love— We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go— Rank after Rank, with even feet— And Uniforms of Snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Country, Fall, Eye

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Purple, Victory, Dying

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, Modern Library

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