Emily Dickinson Quotes, Dark Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

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The brain is wider than the sky.

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Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

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I have an appetite for silence.

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There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

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If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now

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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

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How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

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I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

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PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

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