Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Darkness

• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

• Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

  Good Morning, Stars, Eye

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

• I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Cutting, Knives

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.106, 谷月社

• We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Communication, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1644, Delphi Classics

• But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Distance, Lying

• You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Son, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

• How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Ideas, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1262, Delphi Classics

• Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Light, Darkness, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.304, First Avenue Editions

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