Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. >>

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly >>

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to l >>

Quotations about Bereavement

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unber >>

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cheri >>

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. >>

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Thoreau, Henry David