Henry David Thoreau Life and Living quotes

" Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. " # Life and Living # Love # Age and Aging

" Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. " # Life and Living

" I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. " # Life and Living

" However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. " # Life and Living

" And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it. " # Life and Living # Memory # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Life and Living # Society # Love

" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion. " # Life and Living # Love # Death and Dying

" The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. " # Life and Living

" However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. " # Life and Living

" Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve. " # Life and Living # Love # Writers and Writing