Quotes about Reflection
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
— Henry David Thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
— Henry David Thoreau
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare
— Henry David Thoreau
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
— Henry David Thoreau
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
— Henry David Thoreau
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.
— Henry David Thoreau
The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
— Henry David Thoreau
To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
— Henry David Thoreau
Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
— Henry David Thoreau