Quotes about Life
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
— Henry David Thoreau
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
— Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
— Henry Ford