Life Quotes Quote by Emily Dickinson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for you, but the words won't come, though the tears will, and I sit down disappointed. Yet, darling, you know it all-- then why do I seek to tell you? I do not know. In thinking of those I love, my reason is all gone from me, and I do fear sometimes that I must make a hospital for the hopelessly insane, and chain myself up there so I won't injure you.”

“We never know how high we are”

“Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....”

“Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again.”

“In a serener Bright,”

“Hope is the thing with feathers”

“We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.”

““But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"”

“What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.”

“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”

“Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.”

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”