Emily Dickinson Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

• If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sympathy, Pain, Kindness

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

• Pain has an element of blank

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Elements, Blank

  Emily Dickinson (2006). “Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete”, p.18, Lulu.com

• 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)

• The Heart asks Pleasure--first--
  And then--Excuse from Pain

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Heart, Firsts

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

• You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Time, Pain, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.319, Harvard University Press

• How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Girl, Kindness

  EMILY DICKINSON (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Feelings, Literature

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

• There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Memories, Steps

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). “Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia”

• Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Past, Elements

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.719, Harvard University Press

• Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
  Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
  Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
  Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

• The heart asks pleasure first,
  And then, excuse from pain;
  And then, those little anodynes
  That deaden suffering;
  And then, to go to sleep;
  And then, if it should be
  The will of its Inquisitor,
  The liberty to die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Heart, Sleep

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

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