Emily Dickinson Quotes About Immortality

Quotes about: Immortality

• For love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Romantic, Romance

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

• 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

• 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)

• I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Arguing

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, 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)

• A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Mind, Letters

  "The Letters of Emily Dickinson". Book edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.

• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Past, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press

• Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Horse, Children, School

  'Because I could not stop for Death' (c.1863)

• The only secret people keep is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  People, Secret, Immortality

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1174, Harvard University Press

• IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Needs, Immortality, Immortal

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

• Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love Is, Vitality, Reform

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

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