Walden Quotes

“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.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”