Emily Dickinson Quotes

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Tombstones don't talk back.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

To retire is to begin to die.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Life and hope must cease together.

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

No one gets out of here alive.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Time and death sleep side by side.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.