Walden Quotes

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...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.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden