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Dead Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
- The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
- Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge…
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
- If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as…
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
- The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living…
- Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have…
- Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum incessantly, in preparation…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon