Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live >>

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as >>

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying an >>

Quotations about Life and Living

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. >>

Real life seems to have no plots. >>

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient pr >>

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David