Friendship Emily Dickinson Quotes & Sayings

A sense of place is very important in writing. — William Lashner

The critical mind is the creative mind. — David Duchovny

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown. — Emily Dickinson

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. — Camille Paglia

He has traveled through canyons of his own and come through changed. And — Ally Condie

Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend await
Felicity of doom. — Emily Dickinson

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. — Emily Dickinson

I only know that when you shall come back again, the Earth will seem more beautiful, and bigger than it does now, and the blue sky from the window will be all dotted with gold
though it may not be evening, or time for the stars to come. — Emily Dickinson

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them. — Thomas Huxley

An aphrodisiac will disappear,
delusional, like permanence or wealth -
a shimmering, as if love were a ghost -
and yet my passion for you seethes and sears
without an end. Late April leaves can't crave
caress of dew, sunlight's sweet splash, more than
I pine for your embrace, us turned to one;
when harsh reversals scar, the thought of you will salve
like summer wind in autumn; deep red blood
surging along with mine, staid genes worked hot
from your electric charms, as all my moods
succumb to your sweet fire, and perfect wit.
Now you are all I live for - loving you -
in fleeting world of lies, you are the truth. — Lauren Lipton

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. — Aristotle.

Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it seem logical. As if he was lying in a hospital bed with cancer rather than rotting in a prison cell for rape and murder. — Anais Torres

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ('this-has-been'), the photograph suggests that it is already dead. — Roland Barthes

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I want longevity. I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to continue to do good work and projects that inspire me, and if I can have fun while doing it, that's the dream. — Skylar Astin

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away
— Emily Dickinson

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi