Dream Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

— Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

— Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

— Henry David Thoreau

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

— Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

— Henry David Thoreau

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my…

— Henry David Thoreau

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

— Henry David Thoreau

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we…

— Henry David Thoreau

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

— Henry David Thoreau

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we…

— Henry David Thoreau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which…

— Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has…

— Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They…

— Henry David Thoreau

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily…

— Henry David Thoreau

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an…

— Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to…

— Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that…

— Henry David Thoreau

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

— Henry David Thoreau

Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than…

— Henry David Thoreau

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a…

— Henry David Thoreau

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is no dream of mine, To ornament a line; I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven Than I live to…

— Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will…

— Henry David Thoreau