Emily Dickinson Quotes

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your Love and warmth with others. Watch the Light return.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.