No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How many flutterings before they rest quietly in their graves! They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
