Time Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Let go of the past and go for the future.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must look a long time before we can see

— Henry David Thoreau

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

— Henry David Thoreau

find your eternity in each moment

— Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no time to be in a hurry.

— Henry David Thoreau

Oh, one world at a time!

— Henry David Thoreau

“The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

— Henry David Thoreau

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

— Henry David Thoreau

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

— Henry David Thoreau

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

— Henry David Thoreau

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

— Henry David Thoreau

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

— Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful…

— Henry David Thoreau

“To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing…

— Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate…

— Henry David Thoreau

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,…

— 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

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be…

— Henry David Thoreau

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down…

— Henry David Thoreau

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.…

— 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 wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common…

— Henry David Thoreau

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau