Walden Thoreau Quotes
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To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
— Harry Bridges
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?
— Henry David Thoreau
The fault-finder will find fault even in paradise.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
— Tim Robbins
I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
— Will Smith
To be awake is to be alive.
— Henry David Thoreau
Society is commonly too cheap.
— Henry David Thoreau
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.
— Daniel J. Rice
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
— Henry David Thoreau
We move closer together like sections of a tightened shoelace
— Veronica Roth
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
— Henry David Thoreau
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
— Henry David Thoreau
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
— Henry David Thoreau
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.
— Orville Prescott
Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.
— Ruud Gullit
Normally he came up the stairs as if he hated every one of them.
— Terry Pratchett
I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
— Henry David Thoreau
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
— Edward Carpenter