Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily DickinsonPoet · American · 1830 – 1886
More from Emily Dickinson
Love QuotesLife Quotes
#Death
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. — Elbert Hubbard
  • I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. — Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
  • He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. — Emily Dickinson
  • I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. — Emily Dickinson
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026