Funny Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

— Henry David Thoreau

Surely joy is the condition of life.

— Henry David Thoreau

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

— Henry David Thoreau

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let nothing come between you and the light.

— Henry David Thoreau

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

— Henry David Thoreau

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

— Henry David Thoreau

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

— Henry David Thoreau

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

— Henry David Thoreau

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

— Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...).

— Henry David Thoreau

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

— Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

— Henry David Thoreau

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good,…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

— Henry David Thoreau

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no time to be in a hurry.

— Henry David Thoreau

He who owns little is little owned.

— Henry David Thoreau

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

— Henry David Thoreau

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

— Henry David Thoreau

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must have infinite faith in each other.

— Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

— Henry David Thoreau

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is but the place where I stand ...

— Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

— Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

— Henry David Thoreau

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

— Henry David Thoreau