Night Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

— Henry David Thoreau

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

— Henry David Thoreau

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

— Henry David Thoreau

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

— Henry David Thoreau

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.”

— Henry David Thoreau

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I…

— 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

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work…

— Henry David Thoreau

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most…

— Henry David Thoreau

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us;…

— Henry David Thoreau

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake…

— Henry David Thoreau

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth…

— Henry David Thoreau

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and…

— 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

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow…

— Henry David Thoreau

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the…

— 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

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument…

— Henry David Thoreau

The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which…

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There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head…

— Henry David Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood…

— 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

“Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or streeet, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines…

— Henry David Thoreau

How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.…

— Henry David Thoreau