Emily Dickinson Quotes

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

I envy the dead.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Rogues, would you live forever?

I can't die but once.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

The king never dies. Rex nunquam moritur.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

If you die, you're not a failure.