Suicide Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

11 Suicide quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s eleven short reflections on suicide carry his characteristic blend of natural observation and moral contemplation. They provide a quiet, thoughtful counterpoint to the weight of the topic.

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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the…

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

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I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

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“When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the…

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These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts…

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

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“but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them—as if the legs were made to sit upon, and…

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Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and…

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Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very…

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For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will…

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“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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