Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
6 quotes by Henry David Thoreau (died 1862), taken from Walden. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Walden
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
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“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest.”
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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”