Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Anxiety

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Anxiety, Toil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

• It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Anxiety, Enemy

  "The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition".

• If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Shoes, Optimism, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

• Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Confidence, Tyrants, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.8, Xist Publishing

• The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacrifice, Squirrels, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.259

• No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Clothes, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.13, 谷月社

• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fancy Cars, Anxiety, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

• The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anxiety, Done, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.159, Penguin

• Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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