Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Death

• When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Greatness

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

• On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Fate, Bereavement

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2009, Delphi Classics

• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Death

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

• We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Dying, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• Even trees do not die without a groan.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Tree, Dies

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.69, Courier Corporation

• Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Death, Rip

  Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

• When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Summer, Lying

  "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

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