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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

To know a man's secrets is to discover his weakness, and thus control his will — Jeremy Aldana

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together. — Andrew Bird

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

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather — Willa Cather

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