Quote

Let go of the past and go for the future.

Henry David Thoreau

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
Abolitionist
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Essayist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau
Henry D. Thoreau
Future
Past

More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Image
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
All men are children, and of one family.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
Henry David Thoreau