Love Quotes by Henry David Thoreau · Page 4

Love must be as much a light, asit is a flame.

— Henry David Thoreau

Trees indeed have hearts.

— Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who work much do not work hard.

— Henry David Thoreau

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

— Henry David Thoreau

He who owns little is little owned.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no time to be in a hurry.

— Henry David Thoreau

Oh, one world at a time!

— Henry David Thoreau

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

— Henry David Thoreau

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

— Henry David Thoreau

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

— Henry David Thoreau

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is…

— Henry David Thoreau

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

— Henry David Thoreau

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The only remedy for love is to love more.”

— Henry David Thoreau

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

— Henry David Thoreau

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

— Henry David Thoreau

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

— Henry David Thoreau

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

— Henry David Thoreau

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

— Henry David Thoreau

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

— Henry David Thoreau

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

— Henry David Thoreau