Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the >>

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. >>

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, wh >>

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. >>

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. >>

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David