Emily Dickinson Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• 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

• I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

  Emily Dickinson

  Grief, Eye, Grieving

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

• The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Grief, Heart

  'The Bustle in a House' (c.1866)

• 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

• I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

  Emily Dickinson

  Grief, Feet, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.115, Harvard University Press

• The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Integrity, Grief

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.562, Harvard University Press

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