Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Life

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  • Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press
  • As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby
  • To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

    Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

    Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.56
  • We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.98, Xist Publishing
  • The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, BookBaby
  • Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
  • So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社
  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press
  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin
  • A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press
  • I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.356, Penguin
  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854)
  • As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.93
  • If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

    Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation
  • Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

  • I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin
  • In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod”, p.133, Trajectory Inc
  • We live but a fraction of our lives.

    Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.44, Courier Corporation
  • If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

    "Life Without Principle". The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, Issue 71, (pp. 484-495), 1863.
  • As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics
  • How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.
  • To be awake is to be alive.

    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142
  • I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby
  • But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
  • Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics
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