Emily Dickinson Quotes

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.