Famous quotes by Authors

"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged"

Stephen King, Author

"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live"

Stephen King, Author

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Thaw, with her gentle persuasion, is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The heart is forever inexperienced"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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