Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love your life, poor as it is.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
- Henry David Thoreau
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
- Henry David Thoreau
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
- Henry David Thoreau
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
- Henry David Thoreau
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
- Henry David Thoreau