Lives Of Quiet Desperation Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lives Of Quiet Desperation
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation! — Ray Milland Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly. — D.B.C. Pierre Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We’re the quiet woman at the end of the third-floor hallway, whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell with a… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet says. But… — Richard Stidham Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted,… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation! — Ray Milland Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We're not the madwomen in the attic – they get lots of play, one way or another. We're the quiet woman at the end… — Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs Copy Share Image
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
