Dark Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

— Henry David Thoreau

Why look in the dark for light?

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

— Henry David Thoreau

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

— Henry David Thoreau

The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at…

— Henry David Thoreau

The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,…

— Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But…

— Henry David Thoreau