Emily Dickinson Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Agony, Suffering

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.66, First Avenue Editions

• Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Suffering, Teeth

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.385, Harvard University Press

• It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Loneliness, Fate

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.38, Heinemann

• They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

  Emily Dickinson

  Suffering, Age, Tests

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.355, Harvard University Press

• He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

  Emily Dickinson

  Adversity, Suffering, Doom

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

• 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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