"The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not...

I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.
~ Emily Dickinson ~











More Emily Dickinson quotes
"Dying is a wild night and a new road.
"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.
"I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?"For b...
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality
"We do not play on Graves—Because there isn't Room—Besides—it isn't even—it slantsAnd People come—And put a Flower on it—And hang their faces so—We're ...
"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
"And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?
"Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
"Life is death we're lengthy at
"My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that ...
"To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim --
"I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but ...
"She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,Took up her simple wardrobeAnd started for the sun.Her little figure at the gateThe a...
"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.


