Emily Dickinson: Quotes about life

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”

“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”

“I tasted life.”

“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”

“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”

“I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf”

“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.”

“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.”

“Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit,—Life!”

“I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.”

“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
In Corners — till a Day
The Owner passed — identified —
And carried Me away —

And now We roam in Sovereign Woods —
And now We hunt the Doe —
And every time I speak for Him —
The Mountains straight reply —”