Emily Dickinson Quotes About Death
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.
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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room
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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.
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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
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Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.
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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
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My life closed twice before its close
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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
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