Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

Alfred Tennyson
About This Quote

This quote by Emily Dickinson fits perfectly with the first quote. It shows how deep love can be and how much time is wasted on it. To have a love that you barely remember after death, is an unrequited love. And if the feelings were requited, you could not be in a world without it.

Love so deep and so true cannot be in a world without it's owner and if life does not allow for this, then it has no meaning or purpose. This quote fits perfectly with the second quote, when she says that “happily ever after” is just a fairy tale.

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